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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (2880)11/11/1996 2:08:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton   of 24154
 
>Reg, to use the use one of those
>wartime metaphors so fashionable in Redmond these days,

The problem with wartime metaphors is they get abused.

For example, in the case of Microsoft we have Herr, er, I mean Chairman Gates having the gall to claim he's the allies and giving his latest software gizmos pretentious names like "Normandy" and "Tripoli" (what's IE called, "Dunkirk"?).

Although I find the whole World War II analogy rather demeaning to the sacrifices made during the real thing and a potential public relations disaster for whoever uses it (what if "Normandy" gets pushed right off the beaches?), I will say I think that they have it exactly reversed: Netscape, Sun et al. are the allies, working to liberate the software industry from years of Microsoft occupation.
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