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   mechanic to Soupe du Jour   
   Re: Linux Mint 15   
   26 Jul 13 20:24:26   
   
   XPost: alt.os.linux.mint, alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   From: mechanic@example.net   
      
   On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:50:12 +0000 (UTC), Soupe du Jour wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:34:30 +0100, Rob wrote:   
   >   
   >> Windows was a revolution as it could run on generic hardware   
   >> which allowed market forces to run unhindered and the computing   
   >> industry to expand beyond anyone's wildest dreams and become   
   >> what it is today. Windows was a complete revolution and we   
   >> should thank Microsoft for their vision. It wasn't Apple or IBM   
   >> which revolutionised the industry you know.   
   >   
   > What vision? They bought DOS from someone else and copied Windows   
   > from the Mac. Even Excel was really just Lotus 123 with a GUI   
   > interface.   
      
   How are sales of Lotus 1-2-3 going at the moment?   
      
   Come on Soupy you can do better than this rant.   
      
   [snip rest of the trolling guff]   
      
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