From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 10 14: 9:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from baygull.rtd.com (baygull.rtd.com [198.102.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77065153CD for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:09:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from angussf@geoapps.rtd.com) Received: from geoapps.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by baygull.rtd.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id WAA15019 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:17:58 GMT (envelope-from angussf@geoapps.rtd.com) Message-Id: <199911102217.WAA15019@baygull.rtd.com> Received: by geoapps.com (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Wed, 10 Nov 99 15:05:32 MST for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Angus Scott-Fleming" X-Organization: GeoApplications, Tucson, Arizona To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:37:00 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Reply-To: angussf@geoapps.com In-reply-to: <3825FFEF.4D40DD20@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 7 Nov 99, at 17:40, Pedro Fernando Giffuni wrote: > Isn't it a good time to be a FreeBSD user? :-). > > I read the complete document(WOW, I wasn't aware of everything there). > Considering a Judge wrote this, I think M$ is in big trouble. I think the whole computer business is in Big Trouble - once the government steps in and starts telling us how to run our businesses, innovation will drop to a crawl as bus.people try to 2nd-guess the govt regulators. Not saying MS is/was right, but my solution has always been not to do business with people whose business ethics are lousy. This is the only ethical way to deal with people like that. Bringing the power of government ("the mob") down on them is a short-term fix, but it's a long-term problem as others will drag the govt. into this arena and IMHO we'll all suffer for it. Open-source doesn't suffer from this problem because you can go elsewhere for support when you don't like the ethics of the business that's using/selling it. --------------------------------------------------------- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApplications, Tucson, Arizona angussf@geoapps.com 1-520-323-9170 / fax 1-208-248-3124 --------------------------------------------------------- Proud user of Pegasus Mail, PM-Burst and Waffle --------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message