From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 18 19:07:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10993 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 19:07:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA10898 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 19:07:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 5622 invoked by uid 1017); 19 May 1998 00:57:55 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 18:57:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... In-Reply-To: <6671.895541906@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hooray! Finally someone else who sees two wrongs don't make a right. Jordan, although we may get lynched for this, thanks for the jolt of rationality :-) Kevin On Mon, 18 May 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I know I am going out on a limbe here, but I do not think the Justice > > Department should make any decisions on the software industry, and I think > > Microsoft should be allowed to ship whatever the hell it wants. > > I agree totally. The people who are so enthusiastically > rah-rah-rahing about the idea of the Justice dept. pissing in > Microsoft's breakfast cereal by successfully arguing that including a > browser with an OS constitutes some sort of anti-trust violation are, > not to put too fine a point on it, being complete idiots. By > endorsing such a precedent, they are essentially building the > government a legal assault weapon, aiming it at part of the software > industry and then naively assuming that it won't be turned in their > direction once it's done shooting at Microsoft. > > We're already in a hell of our own making over the issue of software > patents (we asked for these laws, the goverment said yes, now we've > screwed ourselves) and some people would now like to essentially say > that the U.S. government, those wonderfully intelligent people who > brought us export restrictions on cryptographic software which can be > printed on a T-shirt and walked out of the country, should judge just > which features a programmer can and cannot put into his or her OS. > > Frankly, putting IE into Win95 was the next logical step for Microsoft > to make and I applaud Bill for having the guts to give the government > the finger on this one. This government has no business saying what > Microsoft can or cannot put into its software products and they have > no business saying what can go into MY products either. I'm at least > smart enough to see that I can't argue for my freedom and deny > Microsoft's without becoming a complete hypocrite in the process. > Think about it, folks. The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily > your friend. > > - Jordan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message