Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:53:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518154830.5005A-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518152104.22564A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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> >Those are commodities that influence the basic needs of people (heat, > >elctricity, telephones), and not what OS they use to play Quake. If we > >open the door to this kind of government support, expect a clipper chip > >inside your phone very shortly. > > EXACTLY!!! If you look at where MS invested lately and what they > bought you will realize that 1984 is soon to be here. They bough or > invested almost everywhere: cable, tv, phone, etc. etc. etc. I don't want > to have every appliance soon run windows -- and if the monopoly won't stop > now, this WILL happened. Nobody is going to port FreeBSD to your cable box > or your microwave -- but MS will port their Windows. Embedded NT, Windows > CE, windows for WebTV, WAKE UP!!! Do you want to live in the world like > that? I do not. Nor do I. As I said, I am not a big MS fan; I am a fan of freedom and choices. I just think that diluting technology does not solve a thing, and taking this issue to court gives the power to the government, instead of to the people. We need better, stronger alternatives. We need a plan, because we are both afraid of the same disastrous end. We just have different culprits. If you look at our business (Atipa), we gain a very significant portion of our money by offering alternatives to Microsoft. The blue suits at Dell, Packard Hell, etc., need to be convinced of the same. I think it will take Java (or some other cross-platform environment) to get us there. That will also loosen the grip of the evil Intel. This is what we need to protect, not Netscape. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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