True Believers: Behold The Microsoft User Network, A Microsoft Fan Site
Bryan Chaffin Nov 03 2003
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..
Called the Microsoft User Network (MUN), the site is seemingly the
successor to what was once called the Bill Gates Fan Network (BGFN)
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..
"Our aim and purpose is bringing to the users all good things created by
Microsoft in an handy way, and to fight the prejudice against Microsoft
products created by the competition, who showed several times to be
incapable to create products that are both innovative and user friendly,
and fights with unfair means like fueling hacker activities and bringing
Microsoft into useless court trials, forcing them to spend enormous
amounts of resources that could have been used in research and
development, thus slowing innovation."

....Some of the others were already big-time players when Microsoft had
absolutely nothing but Bill's then uncertain dreams!!! IBM, Apple and
MacIntosh with Steve Jobs, Xerox, etc. were good mechanics - they built
machines and devices - they made tons of money - but they lacked
ingenuity, or intuition, or something about how to make them work better
- for the "common" people who were not computer "geniuses" (the common
people was the majority of the world!).

Today, I think that the majority of the world has been elevated and
much-higher-educated because of Bill Gates...because of his
dreams...because he can't stop trying to be one iota better...and
because he put people in his formula for success.
PEOPLE + INFORMATION = SUCCESS. Stanley B., member
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we have no idea if the Microsoft User Network is brilliant satire or the
delusional, and poorly written, ramblings of an honest-to-goodness Bill
Gates/Windows fan. In either event, more power to the creator.

Admittedly, we could offer a breakdown of all the silly things on the
site, and perhaps deconstruct the site's (il)logic, or even point out
all the fallacies concerning Microsoft's "innovations," but really,
we'll let the MUN's words speak themselves.

OK, one poke: Steve Jobs and the folks at Xerox were mechanics who
lacked ingenuity? Bill Gates made software for the "common people,"
while Steve Jobs and the folks at Xerox didn't? Here's a clue, Stanley
B., you have that exactly backwards. In fact, as Chandler Bing might
say, could he be any more wrong? ...

http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/11/03.1.shtml

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:30:00 UTC, Daeron <daeron@demon.net> wrote:

-> "Our aim and purpose is bringing to the users all good things created by
-> Microsoft in an handy way, and to fight the prejudice against Microsoft
-> products created by the competition, who showed several times to be
-> incapable to create products that are both innovative and user friendly,
-> and fights with unfair means like fueling hacker activities and bringing
-> Microsoft into useless court trials, forcing them to spend enormous
-> amounts of resources that could have been used in research and
-> development, thus slowing innovation."
-> 

That must include all these"critical windows updates" I see constantly
being sent daily via email and in all the Usenet groups!  

I can see it now.  All these lusers sitting around rocking, drooling 
and whacking off to thoughts of the next version of weenieDOS that 
will fix all those currently endless problems they stoically endure 
every day for the glory of alpha testing billy's latest crapware.    

Mark

-- 
From the eComStation of Mark Dodel

 http://www.os2voice.org
Warpstock 2003, San Francisco, October 18-19th - 
http://www.warpstock.org

Daeron wrote:

> we have no idea if the Microsoft User Network is brilliant satire or
> the delusional, and poorly written, ramblings of an honest-to-goodness
> Bill Gates/Windows fan. In either event, more power to the creator.

Well, what does their site run on?

#v+

$ HEAD http://www.microsoftusernetwork.com/
200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 17:16:22 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "b246d4-3bab-3fa67245"
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.0
        PHP/4.3.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6i
Content-Length: 15275
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:20:37 GMT
Client-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 17:16:07 GMT
Client-Peer: 12.129.225.164:80
Client-Response-Num: 1

#v-

I'm guessing satire.  In any event, the author can't be very serious
about his stance, or he would have used IIS.  Then again, even Microsoft
uses Linux ...

-- 
PeKaJe

Snakes.  Why did it have to be snakes?
	-- Indiana Jones, "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 10:30:00 -0500, Daeron wrote:

> True Believers: Behold The Microsoft User Network, A Microsoft Fan Site
> Bryan Chaffin Nov 03 2003
> .
> .
> Called the Microsoft User Network (MUN), the site is seemingly the
> successor to what was once called the Bill Gates Fan Network (BGFN)
> .
> .
> "Our aim and purpose is bringing to the users all good things created by
> Microsoft in an handy way, and to fight the prejudice against Microsoft
> products created by the competition, who showed several times to be
> incapable to create products that are both innovative and user friendly,
> and fights with unfair means like fueling hacker activities and bringing
> Microsoft into useless court trials, forcing them to spend enormous
> amounts of resources that could have been used in research and
> development, thus slowing innovation."
> 
> ...Some of the others were already big-time players when Microsoft had
> absolutely nothing but Bill's then uncertain dreams!!! IBM, Apple and
> MacIntosh with Steve Jobs, Xerox, etc. were good mechanics - they built
> machines and devices - they made tons of money - but they lacked
> ingenuity, or intuition, or something about how to make them work better
> - for the "common" people who were not computer "geniuses" (the common
> people was the majority of the world!).
> 
> Today, I think that the majority of the world has been elevated and
> much-higher-educated because of Bill Gates...because of his
> dreams...because he can't stop trying to be one iota better...and
> because he put people in his formula for success.
> PEOPLE + INFORMATION = SUCCESS. Stanley B., member
> .
> .
> we have no idea if the Microsoft User Network is brilliant satire or the
> delusional, and poorly written, ramblings of an honest-to-goodness Bill
> Gates/Windows fan. In either event, more power to the creator.
> 
> Admittedly, we could offer a breakdown of all the silly things on the
> site, and perhaps deconstruct the site's (il)logic, or even point out
> all the fallacies concerning Microsoft's "innovations," but really,
> we'll let the MUN's words speak themselves.
> 
> OK, one poke: Steve Jobs and the folks at Xerox were mechanics who
> lacked ingenuity? Bill Gates made software for the "common people,"
> while Steve Jobs and the folks at Xerox didn't? Here's a clue, Stanley
> B., you have that exactly backwards. In fact, as Chandler Bing might
> say, could he be any more wrong? ...
> 
> http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/11/03.1.shtml

What the heck, even Sadam has his followers. Anyway, most people don't
know much more than "He's that rich software dude, isn't he?"

Ian