XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: voodoo@tootycar.net   
      
   On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:46:28 -0400, amicus_curious wrote:   
      
   > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"  wrote in   
   > message news:in6i01$1jd$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >> There’s nothing wrong with Microsoft Windows that a major   
   >> re-architecting coupled with a marketing refocus and a complete change   
   >> to the corporate culture, a replacement of the current top management,   
   >> and a greater embrace   
   >> of interoperability at the code and data level, possibly combined with   
   >> a complete company rebranding, couldn’t fix.   
   >   
   > Perhaps Microsoft has not been as successful as your own companies,   
   > Larry, but that is no reason to demean the success that they have had   
   > themselves and continue to have.  If the people running Microsoft were   
   > as smart as you, then they, too, could be as successful, but someone has   
   > to lose!   
      
   that is right. there is no reason to demean the success of paying poor   
   african darkie countries to join iso to vote in the ooxml standard. that   
   was just good solid innovative marketing that any company, say google,   
   would do. if only they had the smart cookies at the top to think of it.   
      
   > Chump!   
      
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