Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 08:54:20 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970409085417.006b72fc@etinc.com>
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At 08:23 PM 4/8/97 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, dennis wrote: > >> >> I wonder how long its going to take for the courts to bone up on this and >> >> understand what Microsoft has become. The WebTV acquisition is very >> >> troubing to me, as well as the fact that they also announced that the will >> >> be selling "diskless workstations". Pretty soon they will make everyone >> >> buy hardware from them also...it seems fairly clear that thats the >> direction >> >> they are taking. >> > >> >Courts don't do it, Justice and Congress do, and they are completely >> >baffled by computers in the first place. Some judges actually spend the >> >time to learn the issues involved, but congressmen, unless it's >> >politically needed, never do. As long as Mom and Pop are happy with MS, >> >congress will leave them alone. >> >> bunk....mom and pop were happy with AT&T..it took sprint and mci and ibm >> to get attention. The Justice dept (I thought Justice== courts???) still >> doesnt >> understand the AT&T breakup, and they never will probably, but the impact of >> microsoft is MUCH more damaging than AT&T. AT&T, at least, was doing good >> things, microsoft is a vulture. > >This is getting too far afield from FreeBSD, so I won't be replying again >after this. Courts != Justice. Courts==Judicial branch, Justice == >executive branch. Back in 1984, Justice had a antitrust suit of >considerable ago going (and not really getting anywhere) when AT&T decided >to offer the breakup. The Courts approved it, but didn't force (or even >suggest) it. "Forced" by lobbying from the likes of Sprint, MCI and IBM..which was my point...not because the justice dept conceptualized a problem. db
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