Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Resist!
From: Nick Poole <nick.botton@camphill.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 15:15:41 +0000
References: <B645AFBD.827%michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>

>  > Microsoft's motive is always the same: to force the world to use
>>  Microsoft products everywhere. What they are doing here is trying to
>>  create social pressure on people who run mail servers (like the
>>  Leica-Users list) to use Microsoft software in the mail server. When a
>>  Microsoft mail-reading program is processing a mail message that was
>>  delivered by a Microsoft mail server, it does the right thing.  In
>>  other cases (such as the mail software that I use) it does this awful
>>  thing.
>
>
>Brian,
>Q: How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a light bulb?
>
>A: 257--one to change the lighbulb, and the other 256 to devise a way to
>ensure that any time anyone in the world changes a lightbulb for any reason
>from now on, Microsoft gets $2.
>
>--Mike

Brian and Mike,
Q: How many Microsoft employees does it take to see the light?
A: None. They don't understand the question.

Nick

In reply to: Message from Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net> ([Leica] Resist!)