Re: [tlug] [OT] Say _no_ to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 08/07/07, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:

> On 08/07/07, Roger Markus <rogermarku@example.com> wrote:
>
> > Good debating points, but you're ignoring the fact that there's
> > something immoral about supporting an illegal and rotten-to-the-core
> > corporation like Microsoft.
>
> Look at what Bill Gates has chosen to do with the money that he
> "stole" from the people of the world who are rich enough to afford to
> buy computers and software:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation

Having said all this, let the record show that Microsoft has not seen
a dime of my money since I bought a Dell back in early 2000 which came
bundled with Windows 98, which I promptly wiped off the disk and never
used.

I don't consider it an ethical imperative to support Microsoft, though
I do consider it an ethical imperative for men like Gates and Buffet
and Carnegie and Rockefeller to put all that money to use in the
service of humanity.

And guess what? They all did. In the words of Carnegie himself, "The
man who dies rich, dies disgraced."

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Cheers,
Josh