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| schestowitz[TR2] | > This may seem strange, but I ask you please_not_ to post | May 11 16:18 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > about instances of people campaigning against me publicly. | May 11 16:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Especially please don't post about decisions to cancel me. | May 11 16:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | May 11 16:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > The people who work on stallmansupport.org tell me that publishing | May 11 16:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > about attacks against me is useful publicity for the cancellationists | May 11 16:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > to recruit with. | May 11 16:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | May 11 16:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > I think you don't want to help them that. Would you please reconsider | May 11 16:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > what you do? | May 11 16:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That's a good point. I didn't realise the harms outweigh the benefits here. | May 11 16:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I'll change accordingly. | May 11 16:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Re: A request, to help me against cancellation | May 11 16:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Re: Goose that lays golden eggs | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Suppose I have a keen eye for geese with unusual qualities. I spot | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > a gosling with certain features, purchase it from its owner, give it | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > the right care and food and watch it grow into a goose that lays | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > golden eggs. | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > If I could do that, I'd be rich. | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > In the past Microsoft did something like that. When IBM launched | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > their personal computer in 1981, Microsoft provided the OS. At that | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > time Microsoft's main products were language interpreters (mostly | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > BASIC.) Microsoft purchased the base of the OS (=the gosling) | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > from another company. MS-DOS (originally IBM-PC-DOS) became a | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > lucrative product (=the goose that lays golden eggs) and made a | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > fortune for Microsoft and its founder Gates. | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_DOS | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > I don't understand how Microsoft's recent purchases are helping its | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > finances. It's like buying a goose only to discover that it lays | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > but few eggs while consuming much corn. The new owner loses money | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > this way. | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Is there some clever way to use the hungry goose that lays few eggs to | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > make farm accounts look better? | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > I don't understand this well. Can you explain? | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | -- | May 11 16:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Let me first check if this is accurate history of IBM and Microsoft. | May 11 16:23 |
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