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From: snoopy@sopwith (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: The meaning of life, as it relates to hacking.
Message-ID: <1989Dec28.035235.21885@sopwith>
Date: 28 Dec 89 03:52:35 GMT
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In article <RANG.89Dec22001823@derby.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:

|  Actually, a good argument could be made that Microsoft has helped
| out the economy tremendously.  The IBM PC, though it's not the most
| powerful computer in the world, has been quite a boon to businesses
| (the economy).

A bunch of money running around does not imply that something "good"
is happening.  Wars do wonderous things for economies.  Maybe we
should go start a war?

The IBM PC has done the computing industry a great disservice.
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