Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:25:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518152104.22564A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518145641.4694D-100000@altrox.atipa.com>
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Atipa wrote: > >> Stop smoking crack. >Nice. Very classy argument. Just stating facts. :) > >> This is not about Bill Gates having too much >> money. This is about monopoly. Go read some history with the following >> keywords: Standard Oil, AT&T. > >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. -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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