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>Stop supporting user groups? Example, please. Some user group in Canada whose meetings were taken over by Microsoft? Specifics, please.

Here's one: "they were getting out of UG and conference support, not into it". Your words, see above :).

For the takeover, it's in the UT archives. UT search is available to you as much as it is to me. It sometimes displays results in the wrong tab, so I may lose this message, so I'll send this before I start searching. I'll respond here when I find it.

UPDATE: thread #729262. Read ALL of it before we continue discussion about M$.

>Stopped of all code that could be used elsewhere? Do you expect them to just give it away? That's a trend now but it wasn't at the time. You are speaking like a communist.

Stripped. Read carefully.

You haven't seen a real communist in any of your lives :).