Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 08:48:53 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com> Cc: freebsd@atipa.com (Atipa), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <199805201456.IAA18475@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <13887.895612378@time.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 11:37:15 PDT." <199805191837.LAA17231@athena.tera.com>
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At 02:12 PM 5/19/98 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >What I object to here is similar to what I object to about the war on >drugs here in the U.S.: You don't give a man the right to knock your >house down arbitrarily and at any time just because you'd like to hire >him to get rid of your mice - that's clearly stupid. When we gave up >our right to protest search and seizure without due cause in order >that other people could go after the problem of a bunch of lawyers and >actors sticking white powder up their noses, that was stupid too. Now >we want the DOJ to tell Microsoft just what does and does not >constitute a "fair" operating system.... Fair business practices and a "fair operating system" (whatever that means) are two very different things. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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