>Thanks Randy,
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>Not only for this beautifully crafted message but for your contributions to the Fox endeavour. We appreciate everything you have done and are comforted that you also feel our pain.
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>You mention that we should solicit Bill Gates with our feelings towards this decision and I somehow feel that he, being a software developer from the same generation (8080 assembly) as ourselves would be sensitive to our position. I would not hurt to let him know we are "left in the lurch" after making this choice. What the hey? I will write him tonight.
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>Glenn
Maybe the community can come with a nice (Thank You?) letter we can all co-sign?
"The five senses obstruct or deform the apprehension of reality."
Jorge L. Borges?
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
Donald Knuth, repeating C. A. R. Hoare
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely"
Jorge L. Borges