From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 20 07:56:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13353 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 07:56:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [129.72.251.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA13343 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 07:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA18475; Wed, 20 May 1998 08:56:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199805201456.IAA18475@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 08:48:53 -0600 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Gary Kline From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Cc: freebsd@atipa.com (Atipa), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <13887.895612378@time.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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