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that have lots of money over vendors that are start ups and cannot afford
the membership.

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This is not good.  Right now if Microsoft gave me $100,000 (read bribe) I
could become a very good Microsoft advocate.  They could probably make
that much money at the company I work for by my change in direction.  I
don't really want that as I feel depending on Microsoft is a very bad
thing and wish to promote diversity in the computing environment as much
as possible.

Thank you for your time if you read this far.

Thomas Kellar
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w8twk   Freelance Systems Programming   http://www.fsp.com