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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator

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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22015)12/8/1998 4:36:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes   of 24154
 
>>> is more efficient than a car

Don't get touchy with us inarticulate tech types, Gerry. You know how in our inarticulate rage we tend to do things, crazy things, things like Michael Douglas when he.... Oops, never mind.

Seriously, he was trying to explain what a piece of **** he thought the software was without resorting to the kinds of terms I use. It being a courtroom and all. Trouble is, it's hard to be polite about it if you understand software. Especially anything at all about OS. IMHO.

Cheers,
Chaz

P.S. Of course, I don't know if this was his zillionth try for the MSFT lawyer, who would have just kept asking for a revision to whatever he had said, ad infinitum.

P.P.S. If programmers expect to be respected in situations like this we need a guild and a bar exam.
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