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French Response to Google is Microsoft
efp writes "Mark Liberman posted over in the Language Log that, in considering alternatives to Google's library initiative in Europe, French President Jacques Chirac would consider a partnership with Microsoft 'since he has so many views in common with its president, Bill Gates'. This comes out of talks between the French president, the head of the French National Library and the Minister of Culture, in in part 'building an alter ego to the American project, before thinking of an eventual collaboration with Google, so as not to negotiate from a position of weakness' as they plan to digitize their cultural resources."
Pour me up a tall one, tubbies!
if it wasn't their support of terrorists, their ingratiating manner about our saving their asses twice, and the fact that they are as useless as tits on a nun, now i have another reason.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
OMG That is so funny!!! OMG OMG ROFL WTF OMFG ROFLMAO You are so right and what an original opinion OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMGOMGROFLMAO!!! What will they think of next up at the junior fucking high school?!?!?!
...that your France bashing really disgusts everyone else? It's because of things like this that you get attacked by "terrorists".
This is EXACTLY what they're doing with the EU. Dividing up Europe, and conquering it. It won't work, obviously, because they're french, but that's what they're trying to do.
"Fuck you" is the only thing I can think of for you.
1. Conservative Republicans hate France and everything to do with it.
2. Conservative Republicans are a powerful political force to be reckoned with.
3. This will lead Conservative Republicans to dislike Bill Gates (and therefore Microsoft) by association with hated France.
4. Conservative Republicans will embrace Free Software as the enemy of Microsoft and by proxy France.
5. We will soon see Bill OReilly promoting Linux over Windows, at which point the battle is won.
p.s.
6. Don't tell them about Mandrake or Stallman.
Posting as AC to preserve my karma from the hordes of French pussies who'd rather mod me down than step up and fight...
And this is surprising? The dirty little secret of WWII is that after Germany invaded -- and conquered in a walkover -- France, almost all of France's population went back to work as collaborators. French freedom fighters (truly heroic, BTW), made up an infinitesimal percentage of the population.
"Run to Bill, he'll protect us!" Now there's an idea. Jeeze, France, explain to us how your country has actually been relevant for 30 years...
Whaaaa???? The definition of "French" is weakness!!!
I don't know why they need Microsoft. Their cultural resources will fit on a floppy disc.