They didn't "break the law", they just were not nice.

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Kevin
> O'Connor
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:21 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: What shell we do with the Microsoft.....
>
>
> The buying public doesn't 'decide' ... They follow like lemmings.
>
> Microsoft has broken the law. There are penalties for that.
>
> Kevin O
>
> "Mark R. Myers" wrote:
> >
> > My vote is to do nothing and leave Microsoft alone.
> > No one put a gun to anyone's head and said that they had to purchase a
> > Microsoft product.
> > No tobacco company got someone addicted to nicotine against their will.
> > With the AOL/Time Warner merger, it will make them a much larger company
> > than Microsoft and should provide some formidable competition.
> > I like free software, but more importantly, I love free enterprise.
> > I say, let the buying public decide, not a judge.
> > There were no lawsuits by Sony when the VHS format (invented by
> JVC) beat
> > out Betamax, even though Betamax was a better product.
> > I say, let the market decide. Let the people decide.
> > There are some Microsoft products that I do like.
> > Microsoft gave me a free copy of Windows2000 Professional (see, they are
> > getting into free software! :-)  )
> > IMHO, it is the best OS that they have put out yet.
> > But again, let the people decide.
> > I DO NOT like Microsoft's businesses practices. I think Bill
> Gates' parents
> > never taught him how to "play nice."
> > But there are other companies that I don't like their business practices
> > too.
> > I purchased SuSE 6.3 (I will give all of the disks away free to
> anyone who
> > wants them).
> > For some reason, I could not get it to print.
> > I never had that problem with any other brand of Linux.
> > When I contacted customer service via e-mail concerning the issue, as a
> > registered SuSE users, I was informed that basic customer
> service did not
> > include the ability to make your computer able to print.
> > I am sorry, but I think that printing is one of the main
> reasons PCs took
> > off in the first place. I consider printing to be a "basic need" of an
> > operating system.
> > So I disagree. I think Microsoft should be scolded for
> predatory business
> > practices, and that is that. Let the buyers decided.
> > I guess I'm just too much a disciple of Milton Freedman economics.
> > Mark
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Furmanek, Greg" <Greg.Furmanek@hit.cendant.com>
> > To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 3:01 PM
> > Subject: What shell we do with the Microsoft.....
> >
> > > I have great suggestion how to equalize the market MS
> > > is monopolizing!!!
> > >
> > > Fine MS $15,000,000,000.00 and donate the money to
> > > Free Software Foundation!!!!
> > >
> > > The Wolf
> > >
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> --
> Kevin O'Connor
>
> "Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright,
> white
> light. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God.
> In
> a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX
> SYSTEM
> FOR THE 386."
> (Matt Welsh)
>
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