From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 17 12:23: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E6E37B786 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:22:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e3HJLXF86136; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:21:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:21:33 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: J McKitrick Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ anti-trust case In-Reply-To: <20000417183905.D27040@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.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 Today J McKitrick wrote: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 10:22:56AM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > > So now Netscape and Sun are the small guys?!?!?! The Microsoft anti-trust > > case is not about big versus small. > > Unfortunately, though the judge ruled M$ broke the law, many are arguing > that M$ really hasn't hurt anyone but developers, and has helped consumers. > Unfortunately, it appears that is the case. Consumers were hurt, not helped, by being deprived of the quality software those developers would have produced. Instead they are stuck with Bill's crap in a box. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message