From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 10 19:52: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6BB814CF0 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:51:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA13014; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:51:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991110204700.043fbe60@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:51:34 -0700 To: "David Schwartz" , , From: Brett Glass Subject: RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" In-Reply-To: <000001bf2bdb$20f36f00$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <4.2.0.58.19991110165117.04522100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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