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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
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Subject: Re: open this package and you're stuck with it
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Date: 20 Feb 90 02:53:29 GMT
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In article <1990Feb15.010300.16896@aqdata.uucp> sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) writes:

>Don't forget Microsoft's Law (also known as Gates' Rule):
>
>If it ends in ".0", don't buy it.

[
Also known, around here, as Tommy's Translation:
	"How do you write a 'beta?': .0"
]

WordPerfect has extended this to

	If it ends in "5.1", don't buy it.

for exactly the same reason(s).

kEITHe