Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> * Hadron peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>>> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>>>> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>>>>> Microsoft's annual report: A study in open-source awareness...and
>>>>> ignorance
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>>>>>| In reading through Microsoft's annual report, I am struck by how far the
>>>>>| company has come in appreciating the threat that open source brings to
>>>>>| Redmond.
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>>>>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10005379-16.html
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>>>> I'm also shocked by just how ill-informed the company continues to be
>>>> with regard to open source as a business strategy. Steve Ballmer has
>>>> revealed this before in his quips about "Open source won't pay our
>>>> bills," but here Microsoft has managed to enshrine its ignorance in a
>>>> public document: . . .
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>>> Look. You're supposed to be a computer pro.
>>>
>>> If you're going to quote do it properly. Either boy the text or stick it
>>> in quotes.
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>> "Boy" the text? What does that mean?
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>> In any case, indenting text is a perfectly legitimate means of quoting
>> text that does not come from a Usenet post.
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>> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/
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>> I don't really like the
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>> and I have no interest in searching for such quotes. If I did, I'd use
>> <quote></quote>.
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> KNode does these quotes, so it's quick.
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Linonut is right, though, indenting text has been a standard usenet
quoting method for short quotes for as long as I can recall. Also,
putting | or > at the start of the quote is another way.
Hadron trawler is just doing his usual - he finds it virtually impossible
to write a post which doesn't insult the person he responds to in
some way. It's like a kind of usenet turette's syndrome.
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