Pot, meet kettle!
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| mdl Sep 01, 2005 11:21 AM EDT |
Microsoft's Brian's Jones response: "it seems to be a bit short sighted and unnecessarily exclusive". I guess M$ would know a lot about that, wouldn't they? |
| tadelste Sep 01, 2005 11:31 AM EDT |
mdl: They're the subject matter experts ;) |
| mvermeer Sep 01, 2005 11:42 AM EDT |
Actually the saying is inappropriate: the open-standards pot, contrary to MS-Kettle, is white. Better saying, Dutch: "Zoals de waard is vertrouwt hij zijn gasten", i.e., "The landlord trusts his tenants like himself". |
| mdl Sep 01, 2005 12:06 PM EDT |
mvermeer:
"The Pot Calling The Kettle Black ( to say something about someone else which is actually true of you yourself...)"
http://www.goenglish.com/ThePotCallingTheKettleBlack.asp In this case, Massachusetts could say to Microsoft: "You are accusing me of being short sighted and unnecessarily exclusive? Ha! That's the pot calling the kettle black!" |
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