Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:51:34 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>, <angussf@geoapps.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991110204700.043fbe60@localhost> In-Reply-To: <000001bf2bdb$20f36f00$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <4.2.0.58.19991110165117.04522100@localhost>
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At 04:24 PM 11/10/1999 -0800, David Schwartz wrote: > The problem is that the majority of these practices were the same types of >practices that every software design company practices every day. Not so. The practices in which Microsoft engaged all involved monopoly leverage, which no other software company has. > > To say that the government should not intervene because Microsoft's > > illegal actions were accomplished (in part) via software design is akin to > > saying that the government should not punish fraud because it is > > accomplished via speech. > > Actually, that's a point that's relevant for several reasons. A lot of the >evidence in this case consists of memos between Microsoft employees. The >problem is, you can't infer a company's motives by what its employees say to >each other. Oh? In that case, I suppose that any corporation can get away with anything, then, because even though it's a "fictional person" for legal purposes it cannot have intent. This leaves us wide open to a rather nasty agenda: minimize government that's accountable to the people, while instituting what is effectively government by corporate fiat. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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