From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 11 04:08:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA22014 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 04:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA21895 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 04:08:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id UAA20794; Mon, 11 May 1998 20:37:56 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980511203756.I20153@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 20:37:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Amancio Hasty , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Letter to DOJ: Part II References: <199805110526.WAA02484@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199805110526.WAA02484@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Sun, May 10, 1998 at 10:26:51PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 X-Mutt-References: <199805110526.WAA02484@rah.star-gate.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 May 1998 at 22:26:51 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > California state attorney's web page which I easily found thru Yahoo: > > http://caag.state.ca.us/ OK, I've been skimming these messages as they came through. Some people have said "why restrict this to the USA, it's a global problem". There are some answers to that question, but why restrict it to a state? I can't see anything on this page which relates to Microsoft, and a search for "microsoft" returns No Documents Found. > DOJ's Anti Trust Division contact web page: > > http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/index.html > > > For your review: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Your Honor, > > The purpose of this letter is to ask you to block the Microsoft's Win98 > release until it is clear that its monopolistic practice ceases. > > I believe that one the tightest strong-holds that Microsoft has on > the PC industry is the way that Windows is bundled with virtually > every PC now sold. This serves as a way to block any other competing > operating system and sets the stage for application dominance by > Microsoft. > > Enclosed is Ralph Nader's letter which was submitted to major > PC manufacturers . Naturally, there was no response from the PC > manufacturers. Clearly, PC manufacturers need to have re-assurance > that if they start distributing alternative operating systems that > no retribution from Microsoft would be forthcoming. > > To not act in this matter will clearly stiffle the creative stifle > process in the software industry from which Microsoft itself > rose from. Not a bad start. I think that it makes sense for everybody to modify the wording ts something he feels comfortable with. That notwithstanding, the addressees will recognize that "there's a den of them out there somewhere". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message