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Eric S. Raymond wrote:
| Meng Weng Wong <mengwong(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com>:
|
|>On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:46:37AM +0100, Danny Angus wrote:
|>| Winston churchill in 1938, in response to Chamberlain's appeasement
said:
|>| "we seem to be very near the bleak choice between War and Shame. My
feeling
|>| is that we shall choose Shame, and then have War thrown in a little
later,
|>| on even more adverse terms than at present."
|>
|>OK, I'd like to collect more opinions on this thread today
|>and then reformulate my position at the end of the day.
|
|
| Meng, I've thought about it a lot and decided I have to side with the
| anti-M$ers on this one. You tried to play nice and unify everybody;
| that was good, and I'm glad you tried. But there does come a point at
| which we have to recognize that further attempts to play nice are just
| empowering an implacable and vicious enemy.
|
| Churchill noticed that with respect to the Nazis in 1938. George W.
| Bush figured it out with respect to Islamic terrorism in 2002. Within
| the context of the (thankfully) much less lethal struggle that SPF is
| part of, Microsoft has proven to be just as implacable. You are
| certainly more intelligent than George Bush and probably brighter than
| Winston Churchill. What's taking you so long?
Woops... ^^^^^^^^^^ that pretty much ends the thread! ;-)
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Chuck Mead <csm(_at_)redhat(_dot_)com>
Instructor II (and resident Postfix bigot), GLS
Disclaimer: "It's Thursday and my name is Locutus of B0rk!"
Addendum: "Bwahahaha! Fire up the orbital mind-control lasers!"
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