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What does the Borg and Microsoft have in common?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Schiller)
Tue Feb 6 19:33:08 2001
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>Reasons Microsoft is like the Borg.
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>Borg: Travel from system to system assimilating culture after
>culture.
>Microsoft: Travel from culture to culture assimilating system after
>system.
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>Borg: "We will add your individuality and your distinctiveness
>to our own"
>Microsoft: "We will add your money and all of your productivity to
>our own"
>
>Borg: There are sub parts of the Borg that are incompatible
>with the rest of the collective for an undetermined
>reason. (Hugh and his Borg)
>Microsoft: There are parts of the Microsoft collective that are
>incompatible with the rest of the collective for an
>undetermined reason. (Microsoft Works)
>
>Borg: The Borg have a Queen that is evil and ambitious enough
>to go back in time to enslave humanity.
>Microsoft: The Microsoft Collective have Gates who is evil and
>ambitious enough to, in the past, use a Basic
>interpretor to begin the empire to enslave humanity.
>
>Borg: The Borg hunt down and absorb anything that is different
>even from them, even if it is not a threat.
>Microsoft: Microsoft hunts down and absorbs all Macintosh, UNIX,
>and OS2 users, though they only make up ten percent of
>the market.
>
>Borg: "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE"
>Microsoft: "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE"
