Ok why don't we try something new...... *Lets just say in the end* (keep in mind this is a gigantic IF) if Bill Gates overcomes unix and gets a way to legally monopolize everything. Ok why not get used to the idea now. At least be bi-lingual so to speak. Know windows and unix. That is what I am trying to do. This way your on the winning side no matter what. So what if its illegal to reverse engineering. WHO CARES! It's like piracy. Unless you are a buisness the CIA or FBI is not going to bust in your door and take you off to a fed prison.

Tim Shapiro
Phoenix, Arizona
Phone: 623-825-0515
Email: TimShapiro@hotmail.com
>From: "der.hans"
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: Palladium : The cure for Independence
>Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:14:05 -0700 (MST)
>
>Am 04. Jul, 2002 schwätzte Tim Shapiro so:
>
> > Interesting point, but however hackers will prevail in the end. This is
> > why, they don't follow the rules like Microsoft does. Even if Microsoft
>
>Microsoft follows the rules? That would explain why they keep ending up
>being charged of anti-trust activities and why they 'embrace and extend'
>everything...
>
> > makes their own rules it takes them a while to do it. Hackers can just do
> > it. Once cracked software is out there not to check for the Certification
>
>We have limited resources and abilities to reverse engineer stuff. Also it
>was announced today that 2600 will not appeal their case. That means you can
>and will go to jail for reverse engineering.
>
> > then it will be more widley used than the actual software. Sure buisness
> > will have to buy registered versions, even some un-intelligable
> > consumers. So who cares if a buisness money goes to microsoft? I don't
> > care you know why? It never was my money and never will be. Let microsoft
>
>It *is* your money. You pay the taxes that support them. You pay more for
>products because the companies you buy from have to pay the Microsoft tax.
>If it's not your money you live on a commune that uses no currency :).
>
>Microsoft is now using that money and their position to extract more of your
>money from the economy.
>
> > take the internet, the software cracks are already there and will be
> > forever.
>
>Not if the unfair, illegal, anti-competitive practices are allowed to
>continue.
>
>Do you get upset if you feel a referee is making calls to throw a game
>against the team you're rooting for? Most people seem to get extremely upset
>at something like that. I would think that your fundamental freedoms are
>more important than the outcome of a sporting event.
>
>ciao,
>
>der.hans
>--
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># -- Kevin Buettner
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