apologies / replacement slur :)

[Robin Battey]

You know, I'm not quite sure.  Although I'm fairly 
certain it would be a Bad Idea (tm) for me to say, 
even if I did.  Sorry guys.

Cheers,
-robin

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:40:56PM -0800, Phillip Garland wrote:
> Hello-
> 
> If its not too top secret, I'd love to know how Microsoft uses GNU/Linux internally- 
> benchmarking against MS products, development platform, servers, looking for good 
> ideas to incorporate into their own software?
> 
> ~Phillip
> 
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Robin Battey wrote:
> 
> > Hey now, some of us actually *work* at Microsoft!
> > 
> > And I'd just like to say, that's not nearly damning 
> > enough.  You may try something like "how appalingly 
> > microsoft", or something else that actually manages 
> > to capture the vile filth that is the company that 
> > pays me :-)
> > 
> > Oh, and btw, people use linux here -- contrary to 
> > popular belief.  My machine is all cygwin'ed out, 
> > and there are redhat linux boxes lying around in the
> > labs.  I found that hilarious.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > -robin
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:06:32PM -0800, Avery Ke wrote:
> > > On the lines of fighting fire with fire, why
> > > don't we replace the slur with one more appropriate.
> > > 
> > > For instance, one could say, "How microsoft is that?"
> > > (or some more catchy term for MS/Windows, eg. xp, ms, bill gates, etc..)
> > > 
> > > It just might catch on across college campuses,
> > > wouldn't that be fun? <grin>
> > > 
> > > Avery
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> >                         Robin Battey
> > 
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> > 
> 

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                        Robin Battey

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