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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Martin Nisshagen
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 06:07
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rmcassid@uci.edu (Robert Cassidy) wrote:
>> Yes, I am.  Some of the Macintosh advocates, Joe Ragosta, for
>> example, think that every PC user is a blind pawn of IBM (sic) and
>> that the only reason they don't use Macintoshes is that the Evil
>> Monopolistc Corporations(tm) have Big Brother tendencies and over
>> watch all users and air secret messages through their software
>> saying that Macintoshes are bad, and that you should buy their
>> products, making the Macintosh a poor, oppressed good cause,
>> motivated not by desire for money, but for the holy good of
>> all people.
>
>Well, that might be a bit overexaggerated of Joe, but I will admit that
>there are plenty of people that do in fact fit that mold. Keep in mind
>that from this side of the fence we get just as many PC'rs copping the
>same attitude - some of us have become quite overdefensive.

I do not agree. Sometimes it's very funny to read the postings from this
type of 'rabid' users. Joe Ragosta is for example my favorite mac-pope
who makes such out-of-touch-with-reality-postings that it's very hard to
not get a good laught everytime You read them! :)

m a r t i n  n

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From: Martin Nisshagen <d4nisse>
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 19 Aug 1995 06:07:04 GMT
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