Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Code Monkey UK
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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On 2 Oct 1998 18:13:27 GMT, unruh@physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) wrote:

>In <6nkoxaAMrKF2EwM4@dlsl.demon.co.uk> Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>>MS users are being FORCED to upgrade to newer software by the company's
>>dishonest practices and the company's practice of making new file
>>formats incompatible with older versions of the same application.
>
>Forced? dishonest? They are simply using the monopoly rights which you
>have staunchly advocated that they should have. That is what a monopoly
>is all about. You can force the buyer to do do what you want. It was the
>same with shoes under the communists regimes (buy these uncomfortable
>shoes or go barefoot-- you are perfectly free to choose).
<SNIP>

And so on.
When will you people realise that just because Microsoft are
manipluative and dishonest it doesn't mean that ALL propriortry
software is evil.

I was interested at first but now I'm sick of it.

Thad

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From: codemonkey_uk@hotmail.com (Code Monkey UK)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/05
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