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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: trouthead who wrote (21775)10/26/1999 2:56:00 PM
From: JC Jaros  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
MSFT is not selling a product that KILLS you. This is the kind of rhetoric that I was refering to.

No, but you know what. It threatens our *youth in a way that's not dissimilar. Because of all the big monopoly bucks buying lobbiests and marketing, our SCHOOLS and education are really and truly being threatened by educators being led to believe that "tech" is about learning PowerPoint in place of TCP/IP. You know what else? Other countries are gaining ground on us FAST because of it. Mexico for instance, is teaching students there open standards, Linux, networking and actual relevant things, while OUR schools teach PowerPoint. That's a problem, JB.

Edit: It may very well be said that M$ threatens to cost our society MORE in future productivity dollars than the entire tobacco industry.

This 'zealot' thing is a lot deeper than you may be giving it credit for. This 'jihad' is very real. Speaking for myself and I'm sure more than a few other 'anti-M$ers' here on the SUNW thread, our feelings begin way before the point we became SUNW shareholders. Rather go off and list it all point by point until my ears start turning red. I would just implore you to appreciate the validity of why there are such strong feelings about M$, and also caution you, indy investor to indy investor to not dismiss this 'jihad' so quickly. We're for real, and increasingly mainstream.

-JCJ
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