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

["Roger Markus" <rogermarku@example.com>]

On 7/9/07, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> Who forced you to keep using Microsoft products?

The corporation I work for.  You're very lucky that the corporation
*you* work for allows you to use Linux.

> You should be worried about governments stealing our freedoms, not
> software companies.

I'm worried about both mate, and you should be too.

> I hated Microsoft with a similar passion to yours five years ago, but
> as the memories of actually running their software faded, my hatred
> faded into apathy.

Apathy huh?  Wonderful!  Just what this world needs more of so we can
more quickly speed into a deep black hole!

> If Microsoft has hurt you so badly, why can't you quit them? Sounds
> like you need psychological counsel more than legal... ;)

"Psychological counsel"?  So you're calling me mentally ill because I
don't like Microsoft?  Well, considering the state of the world, I
guess you're in good company with the lunatics running churches and
the White House!  But seriously - that's below the belt mate.  Didn't
know you were such a dirty fighter!

> I don't see this happening, mate. I dropped Microsoft like a bad habit
> years ago, and I see their influence fading, not growing.

I sincerely hope you're right, but with the current puppet supreme
court, who's going to stop them?

> Like I said, I can go weeks without thinking about Microsoft at all,
> until somebody thinks that "Linux Users Group" == "Microsoft Haters
> Group" and posts some FUDdy FUDtacular FUDitude to the list.

Fear Uncertainty and Doubt?  That's a good joke!  So I'm trying to
spread fear of Microsoft?  No mate, just hoping people will open their
eyes to the truth and stop doing business with that very rotten
company.  If people refuse to do business with them, they will cease
to be.

> Cheers,

Sure!  Cheers!  (Do you always call people mentally ill and then say
cheers?  You have a strange, or maybe good, sense of humor!

RM