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Re: "Why Mono is Currently An Unacceptable Risk"

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From: asj
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:50
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Jango Johnny <a@hoo.a.hey> wrote in message news:<19044886.bv4EOGkiRo@news.west.earthlink.net>...
> Bureaucracies, when driven by fear, or irrationality, will do many things. 
> It is not hard to conceive of a group of Microsoft /executives/ -- trying
> to assuage the *boss* that Microsoft is all big and powerful still
> ( ooooo ), that they should embark on a headlong and foolish quest to 
> patent/ everything.


well, no argument there. 


> 
>  
> > and lotus is alive and well as a division in IBM.
> 
> COUGH...CHOKE...Spit take!
> 
> C'mon.  Are you telling me that Lotus now, is what Lotus then ( before
> Excel ) was ?   Are you ?


read again: "lotus is alive and well as a division in IBM."
did i say anything beyond that?
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Subject: Re: "Why Mono is Currently An Unacceptable Risk"
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