[ale] AOL sues Microsoft

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Jan 23 22:07:05 EST 2002


I'll tell you guys a little secret.

I've been to AOL corporate and this is what the admins told me.

"We do not use Microsoft products where mission cirtical data is concerned"
"We use either Linux or Solaris"



-----Original Message-----
From: rhia at wyvern.the-weyr.local [mailto:rhia at wyvern.the-weyr.local]On
To: ale at ale.org
Behalf Of rhiannen
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:41 PM
To: ALE at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] AOL sues Microsoft


Hmmm.....  One monstrous, company swallowing, job-reducing, personnel
steamrollering, intelligence insulting, least common denominator geared
product creating, media twisting mega-corp suing another monstrous,
company swallowing, job-reducing, personnel steamrollering, intelligence
insulting, least common denominator geared product creating, media
twisting mega-corp for anti-competitive behavior...

Nope, don't see anything hypocritical about that...

<<Disclaimer for the humor impaired:  The above is sarcasm, possibly not
pure sarcasm, but close to +/- 3 parts of 97% sarcasm. ;) >>

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rhia
knowledge is power - arm yourself


Chris Fowler wrote:
>
> Wow.  Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark [mailto:mph at bravo-64-128-248-9.telocity.com]On Behalf Of Mark
> Hurley
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 8:45 PM
> To: ALE
> Subject: Re: [ale] AOL sues Microsoft
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:26:17PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> > If someone else posted it, I missed it.  Did you folks see that AOL is
> > suing Microsoft on anti-trust issues?
>
> And for those without a link...here is one...
>
>
http://chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0201230277jan23.story?coll=chi%2Dbusi
> ness%2Dhed
>
> Mark Hurley

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