Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 17:37:56 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Bill Gates, Boogieman
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 01:17 PM 04/04/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>"Strong, Lee" wrote:
> >
> > No one
> > is forced to purchase Microsoft goods and services, and refering to
> > Microsoft as a monopoly is inaccurate to say the least.
>
>Oh?  The recent antitrust trial ruled otherwise.
>
>Not forced to use Microsoft goods and services?  Try telling your boss
>that you want a Macintosh, or that you want to install Linux on your
>current computer.  The U. S. Government is a Microsoft- only shop.

Not totally true.

>Essentally, if you want to do business nowadays, you *must* use
>Microsoft Office.  And Microsoft does not publish their data formats.
>(In some cases they do, but the information is wrong or years out of
>date.)  As other outfits figure out these formats (a process of
>questionable legality, BTW), Microsoft changes them.
>
>You want to do business, you buy Microsoft.
>
>--
>Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
>Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
>"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."

Candy