Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 18:57:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518185426.5601A-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <6671.895541906@time.cdrom.com>
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Hooray! Finally someone else who sees two wrongs don't make a right. Jordan, although we may get lynched for this, thanks for the jolt of rationality :-) Kevin On Mon, 18 May 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I know I am going out on a limbe here, but I do not think the Justice > > Department should make any decisions on the software industry, and I think > > Microsoft should be allowed to ship whatever the hell it wants. > > I agree totally. The people who are so enthusiastically > rah-rah-rahing about the idea of the Justice dept. pissing in > Microsoft's breakfast cereal by successfully arguing that including a > browser with an OS constitutes some sort of anti-trust violation are, > not to put too fine a point on it, being complete idiots. By > endorsing such a precedent, they are essentially building the > government a legal assault weapon, aiming it at part of the software > industry and then naively assuming that it won't be turned in their > direction once it's done shooting at Microsoft. > > We're already in a hell of our own making over the issue of software > patents (we asked for these laws, the goverment said yes, now we've > screwed ourselves) and some people would now like to essentially say > that the U.S. government, those wonderfully intelligent people who > brought us export restrictions on cryptographic software which can be > printed on a T-shirt and walked out of the country, should judge just > which features a programmer can and cannot put into his or her OS. > > Frankly, putting IE into Win95 was the next logical step for Microsoft > to make and I applaud Bill for having the guts to give the government > the finger on this one. This government has no business saying what > Microsoft can or cannot put into its software products and they have > no business saying what can go into MY products either. I'm at least > smart enough to see that I can't argue for my freedom and deny > Microsoft's without becoming a complete hypocrite in the process. > Think about it, folks. The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily > your friend. > > - Jordan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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