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To: Golden Eagle
Wow, no wonder they get mad at you. You make them eat their words.

That's gotta hurt.

55 posted on 09/09/2005 7:52:26 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: for-q-clinton
Wow, no wonder they get mad at you. You make them eat their words.

LOL, they should, but watch, even though I blew his claim straight to hell he'll try to deny it, start calling me names, then his buddies will come along start enlarging and bolding their fonts while calling me names, all trying to change the subject and smear my character instead of admitting their claim was BS. No problem, everybody with a brain knows they're losers and have to resort to those tactics when the facts don't back them up, and that's all I care about.

56 posted on 09/09/2005 8:00:05 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: for-q-clinton
Wow, no wonder they get mad at you. You make them eat their words. That's gotta hurt.

Actually, his "facts" and "studies" have holes that you can drive a truck through. This has been pointed out to him repeatedly, but then in the next thread, he brings back the same set of dubious links.

The root problem, IMO, is that some people still subscribe to the "What's good for GM is good for America" philosophy that was rampant in the 50s and 60s, and which led ultimately to the decline of the auto industry in the 70s and 80s. Monopolies kill innnovation where they have power, so invariably innovation happens elsewhere.

The truth of the matter is that Open Source has saved Microsoft on more than one occasion, notably the advent of the Internet in the early 90s. And you can still grep through the Windows XP dlls and exes and find BSD copyright notices today as a consequence. Without that, we'd be using the ISO OSI protocol stack, with an OS probably written in France. Scary.

122 posted on 09/14/2005 1:49:12 PM PDT by HolgerDansk ("Oh Bother", said Pooh, as he worked the bolt.)
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