From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 9 11:56:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12684 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 11:56:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12643 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 11:55:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-225.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.225]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA22452; Sat, 9 May 1998 18:55:53 GMT Message-ID: <35549FB5.79501B0B@ibm.net> Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 11:25:57 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Amancio Hasty CC: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advocay: Pro Choice Tax! References: <199805091724.KAA11085@rah.star-gate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I sent an e-mail to the DOJ AntiTrust Division (sorry, don't have the e-mail address but it's posted on the DOJ site. I received a personally signed letter back from John F. Greaney, the Chief of the "Computers and Finance" section. Mr. John F. Greaney, Chief Computers and Finance Division U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division Bicentennial Building 600 E Street, NW Washington, DC 20530 I would suggest that the "filing" dates for action have nothing to do with the "remedy" portion, and it's time to start writing _hard_copy_ letters to this gentleman and all of our Senators and Congressmen, as they will ultimately be the ones to decide the Microsoft case, much as the tobacco industry "settlement" is being superseded by legislation. M$ will seek to buy influence in Congress after finding out that DOJ can't be pressured. Please, no more taxes! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message