Look Out Macintosh!

jwantz at babel.hpcc.noaa.gov jwantz at babel.hpcc.noaa.gov
Sat Sep 14 18:55:16 EDT 2002


This is probably the main reason why os/x is Freebsd rather than linux.  
MS regards linux as a threat.

     Jim Wantz WB0TFK
On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Jason Symes wrote:

> Nope, Mr. Gates paid Apple to keep Apple afloat and a competitor. Doesn't
> look like forking out that money did any good, did it?
> At 11:59 AM 9/14/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >Add voice and Braille, some games and other highly used software to gnome,
> >and we will have the ultimate competitor to MS.  On MS, didn't I hear a
> >couple of years ago that Mr. Gates bought into Apple to hedge his bets?
> >
> >
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> Jason Symes
> kids in the backseat can cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat
> can cause kids
> The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the
> zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Arthur C. Clarke)
> if you stand for nothing you're liable to fall for anything.
> If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all!
> Just trying to plug away!
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