From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 10 18:01:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08669 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:01:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08652 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:01:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00877 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:01:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199805110101.SAA00877@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Letter to DOJ and State Attorney Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 18:01:02 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG California state attorney's web page which I easily found thru Yahoo: http://caag.state.ca.us/ DOJ's Anti Trust Division contact web page: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/index.html For your review: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, The purpose of this letter is to ask you to block the Microsoft's Win98 release until it is clear that its monopolistic practice ceases. I believe that one the tightest strong-holds that Microsoft has on the PC industry is the way that Window is bundled with virtually every PC now sold. This serves as a way to block any other competing operating system and sets the stage for application dominance by Microsoft. Enclosed is Ralph Nader's letter which was submitted to major PC manufacturers . Naturally, there was no response from the PC manufacturers. Clearly, PC manufacturers need to have re-assurance that if they start distributing alternative Open Source OS platforms such as FreeBSD ( http://www.freebsd.org ) that there will not be any ill forthcoming action from Microsoft. Given that FreeBSD is supported world-wide and its developement is conducted in an open forum , I believe that FreeBSD can provide honest innovation. For example, please visit http://www.thinker.org which is a web server farm of FreeBSD systems serving images from a 3 Terabyte database, http://www.thinker.org/imagebase/index-2.html which clearly states that the image database is a joint project between the San Francisco Fine Arts and the Computer Science Division of the University of California at Berkeley;additionally, I have the original e-mail announcement stating that the image database is managed by a farm of FreeBSD systems should you be interested. Sincereley Yours, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message