From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 9 10:44:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 207EE37BBC1 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:44:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 17946 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2000 17:44:40 -0000 Received: from du174.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.174) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 9 Jun 2000 17:44:40 -0000 Message-ID: <39412CC6.7E900235@mail.ptd.net> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 13:43:34 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS poll References: <3.0.6.32.20000602105141.008acbd0@mail85.pair.com> <3.0.6.32.20000609115136.008ff8a0@mail85.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > > At 05:08 09-06-2000 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > > >On 02-Jun-00 G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > >> Just found this site , which contains a poll on > >> whether Microsoft should be split. Here are the current results: > >> > >> [snip] > >> > >> Quite frankly, I'm surprised that the majority (56.9%) voted no. > > > >I'm not. For the average non-geek user, have a standardized, > >mostly easy-to-use interface is a good thing. Most users prefer > >point and click to a CLI. > > That's probably true. But that site is for geeks. That is why I was > surprised. Besides, the MS split is not about the interface. It is about > predatory business practices. How many of those votes against a breakup came from microsoft.com addresses? > The split should, theoretically, not hurt the interface. Perhaps it will > even help it since, again theoretically, there should be no more API > secrets, so, if anything, more programmers will write software for it. > > By the way, I have just revisited the site. Now they have 2838 total votes, > of which 49.4% is for the split, 46.2% against, 4.4% do not care. > > Of course, it's a moot point now: The judge hath spoken. I am more worried > about one possible scenario I saw on one of the major sites (either ZDNet, > or Wired, or one of those), namely the possibility of George W. becoming > President and dropping the suit while it's being on appeal. Don't forget that Judge Jackson is a Reagan appointee. Republicans don't automatically shut down anti-trust prosecutions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message