From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 11 08:21:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23483 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 08:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23469 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 08:21:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05452; Mon, 11 May 1998 08:20:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199805111520.IAA05452@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Letter to DOJ: Part II In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 May 1998 20:37:56 +0930." <19980511203756.I20153@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 08:20:40 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, You all are welcome to register your own complain and to formulate your own opinion. Best Regards, Amancio > 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