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Post #1,790

by Andrew Grygus

7/13/01 11:37:28 PM

So Microsoft has moved to . . .

. . Paraguay (always popular with defeated war criminals). Now, if I were IBM, I'd pay off Serenity Systems, slap a Warp 5 label on the product and sue DoD and GSA over the "Buy American Act".

Holding the only viable desktop operating system with a "Made in USA" label on it should be worth a little something. The only viable competitor would be suspect due to close association with foreign powers (but is also sold by IBM just in case you are a One Worlder International Communist Vegitarian).

Microsoft would be forced to have their CDs stamped in the U.S. so they could claim "substantial American content", but I don't think that'd hold up in court unless they sell the package for under a dollar.

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Post #1,910

by jake123

7/16/01 10:52:45 AM

Hell, IBM wouldn't even have to...

I mean, Serenity's an American company. There'd be no reason why IBM wouldn't be able to benefit greatly from the relationship between the two companies, without having to deal with a lot of the support issues involved, and which they've always kinda sucked at anyway.


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Cringely on recent MS news. - (Another Scott) - (9) - July 13, 2001, 02:45:00 PM EDT

Yawn...and they'll move to another country.. - (Simon_Jester) - (6) - July 13, 2001, 04:23:52 PM EDT

Not really the issue. - (addison) - July 13, 2001, 04:59:19 PM EDT

I doubt they'll leave either. - (Another Scott) - (1) - July 13, 2001, 05:06:53 PM EDT

Re: I doubt they'll leave either. - (addison) - July 13, 2001, 05:35:07 PM EDT

So Microsoft has moved to . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - July 13, 2001, 11:37:28 PM EDT

Hell, IBM wouldn't even have to... - (jake123) - July 16, 2001, 10:52:45 AM EDT

Tsk tsk, overlooking some things - (wharris2) - July 17, 2001, 03:25:31 AM EDT

I disagree with him. - (Brandioch) - July 13, 2001, 05:29:42 PM EDT

Re: Cringely on recent MS news. - (tjsinclair) - July 14, 2001, 09:44:49 AM EDT

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