Okay, I understand the fear that millions has always had on the little
people, but what about freedom! The government and big business always
squelch the little people and the barter system until it's nothing but
underground running. It's hard to believe that this country is sitting
still for most of the crap that the government gives us. I know that these
comments may be a little off the track but I believe it fits in because we,
as Linux users, have something that operates well without all the money
that big businesses could make off of something that doesn't work.
Microsoft is now divided and will fall unless they do throw some money
around, in the appropriate places of course. It's going to be a sad day on
this earth when another one of our rights as human beings gets taken away
by corporate people that want more and more money instead of what (pardon
this line of thinking for those that aren't religious enough) the Lord
intended, which is to help one another (everyone is your brother or
sister). Pun intended, talk about sibling rivalry!!
Kimi Adams
At 2/16/01 11:11 AM, you wrote:
>On Friday 16 February 2001 10:12 am, Lucas Vogel wrote:
>
> > It's a good insight to the views some of the MS executives have on
> > open source, but I really don't think it has any teeth - even if MS
> > does.
>
>What Microsoft learned from the DOJ lawsuit is the influence that the
>government can have on the software industry. They have finally started
>giving donations to political groups. And like any other tool they
>discover, they are going to wield this new one with one end in mind: to
>preserve their current market share and to grow into new markets. Our
>politicians are quite cheap by corporate standards (remember, Keating
>got five senators on his side for $100K apiece). If Microsoft just
>drops a few tens of millions in the right spots, we could be looking at
>some severe restrictions on free software as a result. This has been
>one of my fears for some time.
>
>--
>Pete Buechler
>peter.buechler@home.com
>
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