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DATE | 2003-11-13 |
FROM | Contrarian
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SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] MSN, Google & Linux
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From owner-hangout-desteny-at-mrbrklyn.com Thu Nov 13 01:06:32 2003 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id hAD66Wjk025990 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:06:32 -0500 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id hAD66Wwa025989 for hangout-desteny; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:06:32 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: mdom set sender to owner-hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com using -f Received: from bsd4.nyct.net (mail-out.nyct.net [216.139.141.2]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id hAD66Wjk025984 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:06:32 -0500 Received: from bsd1.nyct.net (bsd1.nyct.net [216.139.147.7] (may be forged)) by bsd4.nyct.net (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id hAD6BA4L061226; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:11:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adrba-at-nyct.net) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:11:10 -0500 (EST) From: Contrarian To: "Ray C." cc: hangout Subject: Re: [hangout] MSN, Google & Linux In-Reply-To: <200311130051.55974.ray-pub-at-nyc.rr.com> Message-ID: <20031113010525.D40534-at-bsd1.nyct.net> References: <200311130051.55974.ray-pub-at-nyc.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Contrarian List: New Yorker GNU Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribe name-at-domian.com in the body to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Evolution: 000000bc-0000 X-Keywords: X-UID: 30657 Status: RO Content-Length: 1103 Lines: 29
> Letter of the day > By The Letterman: Tuesday 11 November 2003, 10:28 > Subject: Imagine Life Without Google
I have, often, don't like it a bit.
> Microsoft really, really wants Google. It wants Google for one reason, > namely, to strip it naked and to castrate it.
> A hearty thanks to the founders of Google, then, for not selling Google to > Microsoft, whatever their specific reasons were for not doing so. And, for > the rest of us, a lesson in what the Internet and its resultant technologies > would end up being used for if Microsoft had its way. To all the users of msn > and its so-called "search" feature, I have to say, wake up & smell the > coffee, kids.
I remember thinking I'd prefer that it (Google, back when it was Deja) might better have been supported (or partially) by an additional charge in ISP fees. Don't know what that might be, or if it would be feasible. ____________________________ NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene Fair Use - because it's either fair use or useless.... NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc
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