From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 01:07:26 +0800
To: "Patrick May" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Subject: Re: Why I Support Microsoft
Message-ID: <199712291701.MAA16873@mx01.together.net>
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On 12/29/97 6:47 AM, Patrick May (pjm@spe.com)  passed this wisdom:

>     Okay, so I'm a UNIX-head; I forgot about the Macs (a dangerous
>thing to do, given the ferocity of their supporters).  If the
>government were to adopt my suggestion, two major results would be:
>
>     - The third party market for Linux software would grow rapidly
>       and enormously.
>     - The government's software budget would be reduced dramatically.

 that's OK, we Mac-heads have MacLinkPlus translators, we just get em to 
write another half dozen or so  translators for Linux and Linux file 
system recognitions to the OS, no big deal ... we have always prided 
ourselves that MacOS often reads and processes Windoze documents better 
than WinDoze does ...

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   general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature." 
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