RE: Bill Gate$.

["McCallion, Martin" <MccalliM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kari said:

> Ya' know...I don't know much about Linux or the Mac OS 
> (what's it called?),

MacOS, last I heard.

> but gosh guys, ftp on the 400 sends me error messages that 
> say "Unable to
> send data".  At least Microsoft has decent FREE online help.  

Decent?  Not in most of their products that I use.  Free?  Where "free"
means, "included as part of the price".  See below.

> Bill's wares are cheap, easy to load, full of bells and 
> whistles and easy to
> get help for.  Did I mention cheap?  No one is required to 

CHEAP?  CHEAP?  Office Pro costs something like GBP600, last time I
looked.  That's not cheap for the home user, and can't imagine it's
great for the small business either.  A Win 95-98 upgrade costs
something like GBP300 I think.  I've no idea what the US prices would
be, but probably considerably less than in "rip-off Britain", as our
tabloids are currently calling it.

Still, not cheap compared to say, StarOffice.

> Get off Bill's back.  Who out there complaining (that is not 
> a Mac owner)
> has a Gates-free machine?

It's _because_ we don't have "Gates-free machine"s that we complain.

Cheers,

Martin.

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