Re: Satisfying bit of commercial suicide.


In the previous article, E.P. Sporgersi <flexor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This has started to turn into a rather satisfying stink here - [...]

For some reason, there is all sorts of encouraging news lately --
HD-DVD tanks ignominiously, OOXML is being publicly flayed, the EU
finally grew some balls and slapped M$ with a record fine, Vista sales
continue to languish and the public embarrassment over same grows
daily, Yahoo! (of which I am no fan) very publicly smears rotten egg
all over Monkey Boy's face, and a few others I'm not thinking of right
now. I'm sure it will pass, but at the moment I actually catch myself
feeling good once in a while about the general direction this industry
is headed.
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_+_ From the catapult of |If anyone disagrees with any statement I make, I
_|70|___:)=}- J.D. Baldwin |am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also
\ / baldwin@xxxxxxxxx|to deny under oath that I ever made it. -T. Lehrer
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