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Mike Bilow
mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net
Fri Jun 26 04:16:00 EDT 1998
Jerry Feldman wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
JF> From: Jerry Feldman <Gerry.Feldman at alphatech.com>
JF> To: "Todd Wallack" <twallack at bostonherald.com>,
JF> discuss at BLU.ORG
JF> At 12:43 PM -0400 6/25/98, Todd Wallack wrote:
>Hi. I heard a group of Windows 98 protesters showed up at
>CompUSA in Cambridge yesterday.
>
>Any idea how to contact them? I'm interested in writing an article for the
>Boston Herald.
JF> Were there any protesters protesting against RedHat 5.1 too
JF> :-) I really cannot think of a dumber protest than to
JF> protest against a vendor's release of an operating system
JF> which really is a minor upgrade from Windows95(with IE4.0
JF> and all patches applied). Probably the only significant
JF> benefits are VFAT32 (for Windows95 users prior to OSR2), and
JF> the desire to contribute to the Bill Gates welfare fund.
JF> Maybe they should protest CompUSA's purchase of
JF> COmputerCity.
We were thinking of going with picket signs that read "10011101" but we decided
that no one would get it. :)
-- Mike
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