How did M$ get my name?????

[dishawjp]

Hi All,

I can't believe the piece of crap literature I just got from my good friends at Microsoft    

They're inviting *me* (at no cost) to their "Microsoft Technology Open Door Forum."  I would get breakfast and lunch and am entered in some sort of a raffle thing.  The topics are really great... things like "Business Productivity in the Digital Age," "Enterprise Project Management," ".NET Systems Strategy," "Reducing Costs through a Lean Infrastructure," and etc., ad nauseum.  I almost have half a mind to borrow my buddy's Red Hat laptop and show up    

I just hope that this color brochure they sent me cost them plenty.  Hell, they even mailed it 1st class!  What a bunch of idiots.  And this wasn't directed to "occupant" or "administrator" or whatever, it has my correct name and title on it.

I bet the IT director here gave them my name as a joke... I keep telling him that I need a Linux box in my office and he's a pure Windroid.  Actually, he's a decent guy in all other respects, but a Windroid none the less.

Sorry for the stupid post, but I thought it was pretty funny.

Jim

[Refalm]

I'd go and piss off all those moronic Microsoft ass-kissers  

[xyle_one]

yeah, put together a brochure about the pros of using linux over windows (since there are no cons of course) and about how dotnet threatens the web by proprietarising it. it would be fun...  

[KernelPanic]

They probably bought your name and address and occupation from some other unscrupulous company.

[pkd_lives]

Turn up and ask loads of questions, about things Linux can do but they can't. And you should turn up in a red fedora, with a Penguin on you in higly visible areas (like your T-shirt). Ask them why their TCO is lower only in reports sponsored by them.

Ask them how to completely keep a user out of the system files and still allow the comp to function properly, why there are never reports of Linux getting Virii when Windows gets clouted on a regular basis, etc..

[voidmain]

Somebody had signed me up for that shit. And I used to get email junk mail. I sent them a message telling them "Take my name out of your fucking database and take me off of your fucking email list and snail mail list or I will take your fucking asses to court! I will burn in hell before I would use your software!!". I actually got a very nice response stating I was removed from their database and I haven't heard from them since.  

[ December 12, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Pissed_Macman]

Don't forget to leave some of these!!          

[Calum]

i would go along and get the free scran and make a lot of noise about non-microsoft software and how much more versatile/inexpensive/generally better it is.

[KernelPanic]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
i would go along and get the free scran and make a lot of noise about non-microsoft software and how much more versatile/inexpensive/generally better it is.

The day i'd eat Microsoft funded food is the day i'd die.

[jtpenrod]

quote:Don't forget to leave some of these!!

The third card from the bottom reads: "In a world without doors or windows, what use do we have for Windows or Gates?"  :confused:  

Ooooooooooooooppppppppppppppppppppppssssssssssss!!!!
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Live Free or Die: Linux

Their fundamental design flaws are completely concealed by their superficial design flaws.

[Pissed_Macman]

quote:Originally posted by jtpenrod:
[QB]The third card from the bottom reads: "In a world without doors or windows, what use do we have for Windows or Gates?"   :confused:  

Ooooooooooooooppppppppppppppppppppppssssssssssss!!!!

Yes. And...

[Kintaro]

Go Shopping for some clothes!
http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/store.shtml

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by Tux:


The day i'd eat Microsoft funded food is the day i'd die.

do you think they want to get rid of you so much, they'd poison the food?

[KernelPanic]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:


do you think they want to get rid of you so much, they'd poison the food?

They're not that stupid, I would just not do it by principle.

[Calum]

why would you die then?