Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:12:46 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Draft of letter to DOJ Message-ID: <3587DCEE.D9923AC4@softweyr.com> References: <3585F65D.CA47C812@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote:
>
> Mr. Love,
>
> This evening I read your draft letter to Mr. Klein et al with great
> interest. [...]
Mr. Love replied to my letter yesterday, thanking me for the points I
had raised. He is now gathering information on free-source projects
having difficulty obtaining technical information needed to write
drivers. If you know of any companies that refuse to assist in writing
drivers for FreeBSD, Linux, etc., please forward this information to
me; I will collate it and send a single letter to Mr. Love so we do
not flood his box with snippets of information.
Hackers: I've included your list as you are the most likely to know
of problems in developing drivers. I (and the freebsd-advocacy list)
have been exchanging email with Mr. James Love, and assistant to
Ralph Nader, as they prepare a letter to the US DOJ about the ability
of "alternative operating systems" to compete with Microsoft, when
the national computer manufacturers charge you for a Microsoft OS
even if you don't want it.
Please provide any information you can. Reply directly to me; I will
cc: the -advocacy list on the letter I send to Mr. Love.
Thanks in advance for your help.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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