----- Original Message ----- From: "phil hunt" philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk To: discussion@fsfeurope.org Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 3:14 PM Subject: Re: The FSF Europe recommends: avoid SourceForge
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 3:29 am, MJ Ray wrote: [snip]
I think it would be more effective if you didn't come across so extreme.
Sorry, I meant death on a corporate level, not a personal one.
Sure, but even that's too harsh, IMO.
(Now if you'd said you wanted to see Microsoft bankrupt... :-))
so it's one rule for the monopolist, and another for everyone else? how can the community be seen to be operating on a professional level when this persistent attitude exists of "kill bill gates" and "destroy microsoft" (or similar derogatory terms) ...
Instead of constantly slurring the guy and his corporation, why not create better, faster, stronger tools (sorry to plagiarise Six Million Dollar Man there) and software, and intelligently promote them, instead of all this Microsoft-bashing ... most people I know who work in the lower echelons of Microsoft society are good people - they're not _all_ as bad as is made out at times.
I just noticed MJ's response to you ... it's the bloody Judean People's Front!!
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