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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

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