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towy71 · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: open standards can be bought ;-)

Microparp does the wrong thing Rolling Eyes

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Why should it surprise you, the great American freedom to buy votes, stuff ballot boxes and "lose" returns got dubbyah into power.
I just hope WG doesn't decide he wants to be president.
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And it shows that they _haven't_ changed at all. Which of course alludes to all their recent 'collaborations, offerings' as just being the side stepping smoke screens that they are.

Like the tail of the frog and the scorpion, crossing the flooded river.

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towy71

I think you'll find that it was a fox and the scorpion Rolling Eyes

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Dutch_Master · LXF regular Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2353

Like we care what's inside that piece of clothing...

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Have we gone off-topic again, or are the contents of 1sf (troll)'s underpants considered an open standard?
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jjmac

Anything's possible ... if it got popular enough MS would probably claim rights (better head for the hills slippery, while you still can Smile

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hmmmmm, ok, ok 'tale not tail'

And it was about a frog, why would a scorpion want to hitch a ride with a fox. What fox would be dum enough in the first place (grin) Smile

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There was this flood see, and a scorpion was sitting on the bank of a river, It dosen't matter which river. But he/she was looking at the dryer land on the other side, when a frog drifted by. Frogs sometimes do that. So the scorpion said 'Hey, frog, how about a lift across this damn river !' . The frog gave the scorpion one of those looks, similar to that which should be expressed to a MS rep whenever they start suggesting that there going to contribute to Linux or open standards ... <cough> for the good of the industry and all </cough>. And said 'But your a scorpion, if i put you on my back, you will just sting and kill me !'. 'Nooo i wont' said the scorpion Wink

. 'If i did that, then i would drown in this river, and if i stay here i will drown when it overflows this bank !'

hmmmm, It made sense to the frog ... so, the frog agreed, and allowed the scorpion to get on his/her back. They got half way across the river and guess what !. The damn scorpion, arched its' tail ( Smile

) and speared the frog straight through the head. Frog blood splattered everywhere. And the frog gave out a piecing frog scream and sunk to the bottom of the river and was dead. Before it went under though, it managed to ask the scorpion, who was also sluttering in the river, why it just did such a brain dead thing like that. Doesn't it realise that seeing as it can't swim, it has cooked its' own goose in the process ! The scorpion just shrugged and said 'It's in my nature'.

A some what morbid and apathetic tale which can be counted with the one about the ferocious human eating lion, that wouldn't eat the slave that was thrown into the arena, in spite of being very hungry and it was lunch time, because the lion recognised the person as the one who removed a particularly nasty thawn out of his paw a few years back.

hmmmmm bah humbug, i hate conflicting tale morals. Who makes all this stuff up any way Smile

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Moral Piont Being: Bed with MS, and you will get sick and die.

Smile

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decision overturned, as someone voted twice, apparently, article on theinquirer.net

jjmac

They may have been paid twice ...
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Definitely not one of Æsop's fables see wikipedia and fox is also used Razz

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