From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 20 17:29:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14305 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 15:41:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from violet.csi.cam.ac.uk (exim@violet.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13904; Wed, 20 May 1998 15:39:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk) Received: from bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.212.250]) by violet.csi.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0ycHV3-0006NJ-00; Wed, 20 May 1998 23:38:17 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 23:38:17 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen X-Sender: bjc23@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk To: John Brann cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, kline@tera.tera.com, freebsd@atipa.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... In-Reply-To: <199805201942.PAA04067@freebie.brann.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > So what is your suggestion on how should the DOJ treat Microsoft business > > > > pratice? > > > I recommend that the DOJ just leave Microsoft the hell alone. > > [snip a lot about microsoft] > > > > the DOJ should strive to break microsoft into two companies: > > an operating system firm and an applications firm. microsoft > > uses its os to force applcations upon users. microsoft > > has stolen apps that it failed to write. some of these > > have been added to the os product package. > > > [SNIP] How about forcing MS to release their OS source code? Perhaps under a licence such as the Berkeley one or, I think more realistically, something more like GPL. Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message