washpost discovers the obvious

[dep]

quoth David Bandel:

| Try reading the old testament.  M$ is bad, but I don't know of any
| instances of M$ turning entire cities' residents to salt (their
| brains to mush, maybe, but their bodies remain intact) or wiping out
| nearly the entire population of the planet, animal as well as human
| (or maybe that wasn't really a big flood, the sewers just backed up
| in that part of the world).  While demanding money for every computer
| sold (despite the fact that many don't run Windoze) may be illegal
| and monopolistic behavior, it doesn't rank up there with genocide of
| biblical proportions.

only because there's no way to patent turning people to salt; also, 
there's not much money in it. they are, however, working on a way to 
turn people into green tea extract. big money there. 'course, they 
can't do it to *everybody,* because then there would be no one to buy 
it.
-- 
dep

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists
have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them.
				    -- G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"