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Re: Hehe... even Tel$tra doesn't trust M$...

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From: Gary Woodman
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 00:00
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Jason Stokes (j.stokes@bogus-address.anu.edu.au) wrote:
: In article <5oprjm$ib@perf.no.itg.telecom.com.au>,
: terry@perf.no.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dawson) wrote:

: > paul@xenu.ee.mu.oz.au (Paul Dwerryhouse) writes:
: > 
: > >I found this rather amusing, given that our national monopolycarrier
: > >is in league with the devil:
: > 
: > The suggestion that Telstra is in 'league with' Microsoft is more the
: > imagination of wanna-be-conspiracy-theorists than fact.

I agree. No one is 'in league with' Microsoft, unless it suits Gates'
strategies. It increasingly seems that everyone who has a relationship
with MS, from large corps like IBM and Telstra to bunnies like me who buy
quantity one of their software, suffers from it.

: Oh, so *that's* why my OnAustralia CD came with all that Microsoft
: promotional junk.  It was my imagination!

: (I couln't use it with Linux anyway, so that's one ISP I don't have to
: worry about.

Yeah, stick with the little fish, while they're still flapping about...

Gary
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From: guz~zle@hubble.dialix.com.au (Gary Woodman)
Subject: Re: Hehe... even Tel$tra doesn't trust M$...
Date: 1997/06/26
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