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Dude, We're Connecting...
Me and my Linux/OSS rep want to give away free copies of OpenOffice, too, you know.

"Let it go free," he said.

I replied. "We should give this away to everyone... but what about the army, man. I have serious pacifist issues there, dude."

"No worries," my Linux rep replied: "Microsoft and Mike Cox are giving away copies of Office 2003 to the army."

"Way cool," I replied to my rep. "Mike Cox and Billy G. are filling in our place to help make the world a little better to live in."

"Let it go free," he said.
"Free as in speech," I said.

Man, I didn't think types like you and Microsoft were hearing that message, but reading your posts I know that...

... dude, we're connecting - hey.
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