Re: microsoft tells me to "go and play with my computer"

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From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 00:00

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In <slrn79bm4u.3ns.mike7@MooCow.math.nat.tu-bs.de>, on 01/08/1999
   at 10:06 AM, mike7@MooCow.math.nat.tu-bs.de (Mike Dowling) said:

>Obviously, the anti-trust arguments are sufficiently complex to
>confuse most people.  Nobody is *forced* to use Microsoft, even if
>your PC dealer soiled the hard disk of your new computer with
>Mocrosoft's products.

However, they are charged for the micro$oft products whether they use
them or not. This is precisely what micro$oft agreed not to do whne
they signed the consent decree with Ann Bingamon.

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From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid>
Subject: Re: microsoft tells me to "go and play with my computer"
Date: 1999/01/09
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