____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 29 March 2008 18:41 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ [H]omer on Friday 28 March 2008 00:04 : \____
>>
>>> Robin T Cox wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:12:55 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Hate America? Use open source!
>>>>
>>>> Proving that the US Army is the America hater in chief?
>>>
>>> IIRC it was that US Navy last week, too. And let's not forget NASA and
>>> the NSA. For that matter, even the Department of Homeland Security has
>>> warned against Microsoft's Swiss-Cheese software. These organisations
>>> are obviously a bunch of Unamerican hippie Commie terrorists, Goddamit!
>>>
>>>> Absurd.
>>>
>>> Quite.
>>>
>>> It's also strange that pro-right wingers like MS Jack should seem
>>> incapable of distinguishing between America and its politics. I'm sure
>>> there are many Americans who hate US corporate fascism just as much as I
>>> do. At what point did speaking out against injustice, or fighting for
>>> freedom, become denounced as Unamericanism, I wonder? Probably around
>>> the same time as Congress changed from being representatives of the
>>> people, to representatives of corrupt bizniz ... exactly the same kind
>>> of corrupt bizniz that MS Jack enjoys promoting so belligerently.
>>
>> That damn US Navy. So anti-America... *sigh*
>>
>> Navy to focus only on open systems
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| "The days of proprietary technology must come to an end," [Vice Admiral
>>| Mark Edwards, deputy chief of naval operations for communications] said.
>>| "We will no longer accept systems that couple hardware, software and data."
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151858-1.html
>>
>> Must be a hard time for those who are serves mainly by Microsoft's PR
>> arms...
>>
>> Feeling the heat at Microsoft
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
>>| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I
>>| ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
>>|
>>| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly
>>| have to go with that.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
>>
>
> We used to see "why are you being anti-American" every time anyone
> pointed out the flaws in US foreign policy, or the genocide of certain
> American Indian tribes, or the Hollywood-re-written version of history,
> etc. etc. This seems to have more or less stopped now, although
> amusingly, I think that some of the ultra-right were genuinely quite
> surprised to find out that the US only contributed to 40% of the D-Day
> landing armies ("we saved your a**" - err, not quite), and negligible
> amounts of sea power. You see, they believed the hollywood version :-)
>
> Most yanks I know are nothing like that at all, and even the most
> right-wing guy that I know will discuss things, passionately admittedly,
> but he doensn't regard disagreement as being "Anti-American".
I didn't know about the past criticism of US foreign policy (I know about flak
at present), but I know very well about the genocide of the Indian people and
the hypocrisy that comes with it all.
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