From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 13 09:27:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24302 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 09:27:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@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 JAA24283; Wed, 13 May 1998 09:26:46 -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 JAA15791; Wed, 13 May 1998 09:26:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199805131626.JAA15791@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: ben@rosengart.com cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Letter to DOJ: Microsoft vs. the Software Industry In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 May 1998 12:14:46 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:26:36 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Given that the Texas State Attorney has backed up off from the Microsoft vs Software Industry Trust issue, mail your comments to the Texas State attorney . Do it , Do it now and guess what ? You All are invited to mail . Got a friend ask him to email ! Texas State Attorney contact info: http://www.oag.state.tx.us/ email: dan.morales@oag.state.tx.us California state attorney's web page which I easily found thru Yahoo: http://caag.state.ca.us/ They have a contact us button DOJ's Anti Trust Division contact web page: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/index.html email: antitrust@usdoj.gov Texas State Attorney contact info: http://www.oag.state.tx.us/ email: dan.morales@oag.state.tx.us For ease, you can always cut and paste my complain: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your Honor, The purpose of this letter is to ask you to block Microsoft's Win98 release until it is clear that its monopolistic practice ceases. I believe that one of the tightest strong-holds that Microsoft has on the PC industry is 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 reassurance that if they start distributing alternative operating systems no retribution from Microsoft will be forthcoming. To not act in this matter will clearly stiffle the creative process in the software industry. Sincereley Yours, Exhibit A This is a web pointer to a letter sent to Compaq, Dell, Gateway 2000, Hewlett-Packard, Micron, and Packard Bell-NEC. http://www.essential.org/antitrust/ms/compaq.html Exhibit B For further information on Microsoft's Monopolistic behavior see: http://www.essential.org/antitrust/microsoft/microsoft.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message