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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:46:14 -0400
From: Michael Bacarella <mbac@nyct.net>
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Subject: Re: The latest Microsoft FUD.  This time from BillG, himself.
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:33:45PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:

> You can scream all you want that "it isn't free software" but the fact
> of the matter is that you all scream that and then go do your slides for
> your Linux talks in PowerPoint.

I think this is an unfair generalization.

I'm not even all that clear about what PowerPoint is (I've never
seen it, ever). I'm guessing that it lets you display slides in
sequence, but that's just from what I've seen of MagicPoint, which
someone said at a user meet was a clone of PowerPoint.

(And yes, the talk given that day was in fact done with MagicPoint)

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Michael Bacarella <mbac@nyct.net>
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