open this package and you're stuck with it

Keith Ericson keithe at tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM
Tue Feb 20 13:53:29 AEST 1990


In article <1990Feb15.010300.16896 at aqdata.uucp> sullivan at aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) writes:

>Don't forget Microsoft's Law (also known as Gates' Rule):
>
>If it ends in ".0", don't buy it.

[
Also known, around here, as Tommy's Translation:
	"How do you write a 'beta?': .0"
]

WordPerfect has extended this to

	If it ends in "5.1", don't buy it.

for exactly the same reason(s).

kEITHe



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