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Re: Apple has not stopped bullying

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From: Drew Justin Asson
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 13:35
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In regards to your constant persecution of Apple and your support of
Microsoft, I'd like to add my voice.  Microsoft is far from a "good
company" in view of FSF principals.  They have a lock on almost all
PC's via Windows and DOS.  Their products rarely communicate with our
resident programs and often cause these programs to not work properly.
The suggested response from Microsoft is to by one of their products
to replace the faulty product from another company.  

I really can't see how you can avidly support Microsoft in the face of
this.

Besides that, I do support FSF and the GNU project.  I'm very much in
favor of free software that is available to many people on many platforms.

Sincerely,

Drew J. Asson
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From: asson@chacmool.stsci.edu (Drew Justin Asson)
Subject: Re: Apple has not stopped bullying
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