| Mike Audet deserves donations ! [message #93814] |
Fri, 21 December 2007 11:06  |
Tom Bruhl
Messages: 1368
Registered: June 2007
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>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Tu5CPVoP8
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>>>>> hehe
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>>>>> I just started running vista and I gotta say, yeah baby , it sucks
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>Apple used to give close to 50% discounts to educational buyers, and would
give CS students every devel tool they had for free. It's fact James, and
they were doing it for the same reason, market share, not charity.
In addition I am most emphatically _not_ MS certified, so piss off. Nor am
I an apologist for MSFT. I have been a consistent and relentless critic of
the way they do business, on this forum and many others. However, in your
world full of tinfoil hat wearing conspiracies either one is an evil Apple
hater or a glorious Apple lover. The fact that I find the way _both_ of them
do business loathsome is obviously too much for you to get your arms around.
TCB
"James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>I don't know every move Apple has made, I'm sure they have done some charitable
>things in the past, but they have never made it a practice of giving away
>product to steal educational market share, Microsoft has, and it's a well
>known fact! MS has given major universities free computers and software
>so MS dominates their curriculum, it's a fact! Of course a Microsoft certified
>IT guy would defend Microsoft's business practices.
>
>"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote:
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>>First, if I owned a single share of Yahoo stock (thank god I don't) I'd
>be
>>calling for the board to be strung up on by their balls. Here you have
a
>>company that has been consistently loosing market share to the most powerful
>>consumer force in the history of the internet, and Steve Ballmer is actually
>>so stupid he's willing to pay a 62% premium on the Yahoo share price. I'd
>>tear his arm off taking that deal.
>>
>>Second, it's a little rich for a Mac zealot to beat up on MSFT for trying
>>to capture the educational market. Apple nearly gave away the hardware
and
>>development tools for their platform forever in order to maintain their
>mindshare
>>in education. So that's OK for Apple to do but for MSFT it's evil?
>>
>>TCB
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>>"James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>My sister in law just bought a Compaq lap top with Vista, and of course
>>she
>>>calls me because the damned thing is crashing. She told me the salesman
>>>at
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