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Re: I apologize for MS (was Re: Requiem for OpenDoc)

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From: joseph
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:00
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Curtis Bass wrote:
> 
> Jeff Glatt wrote:
> >
> > >joseph <josco@ibm.net>
> > >"I apologize for MS."
> >
> > You don't have any authority to speak for Microsoft

But Jeff, youre parents used to say "we apologize for Jeff"  they were
not speaking *for* you, they were sincerely apologizing on their own
behalf for your bad manners.

> Jeff, for one who's such an expert on everything, from MIDI & music, to
> computer science and how OS/2 is directly derived from ENIAC's patch
> panel, you are amazingly dense at times. It's *Erik Funkenbusch* who's
> apologizing for MS -- Dr. Coughlan is simply translating Funkenbusch's
> rambling, hyperbolous prose into its true meaning.

I would have never noticed Jeff's comments had they not been in your
reply.  I don't use a kill file, I just step over his posts employing
the same care I use when crossing a cow pasture.  Jeff reminds me of a
barking dog. Neglected in the backyard they bark and bark constantly.  
form this post I see that he has learned to both throw and chase bones.

-- 
Joseph Coughlan
Replies are welcome at joseph_coughlan@otter.montery.edu
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From: joseph <josco@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: I apologize for MS (was Re: Requiem for OpenDoc)
Date: 1997/03/26
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