[92552] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why I Support Microsoft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian B. Riley)
Tue Dec 30 12:41:08 1997
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 97 12:01:09 -0500
From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
To: "Patrick May" <pjm@spe.com>, <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Reply-To: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
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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