Chicago politics

[Digital Wokan]

Actually, the mainstream media has been incredibly silent regarding the
incident.

Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:47:07PM -0700, John (EBo) David wrote:
> > "der.hans" wrote:
> > >
> > > moin, moin,
> > >
> > > looks like m$ is learning from Chicago politics...
> > >
> > > Saw this after reading the Intel make Linux compiler article above it.
> > >
> > > http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/index.html#0100
> > >
> > > Skip to the 2nd paragraph, specifically starting at the link to the Seattle
> > > Times.
> > >
> > > The Seattle Times article, however, shows that it isn't m$ directly that's
> > > pulling it.
> > >
> > > http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134332634_microlob23.html
> >
> > well... that surely burns my brakets!
> >
> > does anyone have a list of appropriate people to start writing anti-M$
> > letters?  One that lists people for at least state, national, and
> > judicial would be nice.
> >
> > I'm not much of a political player, but I think I just had it.  We
> > should start writing letters ourselves, I plan to...
> >
> >   EBo --
> 
> Seems to me we're stuck in the middle of yet another "guilded age" -- only
> no railroads or large steel conglomerates...
> 
> Hrm... Perhaps M$ is akin to Standard Oil and Intel is akin to US Steel?
> (sorry -- just got done reading a whole 25 page chapter on that for history
> class. =op)
> 
> In any case, how much effect are those letters M$ has sent out going to be
> when Tom's Hardware and the Seattle Times both report that they're written
> from dead people? Surely other media sources have picked up on this.
> Besides, politicians aren't stupid -- they're only after money, and weather a
> "grassroots pro-M$ campaign" has started or not would hardly make a
> difference to them -- unless, of course, their palms are being greased in
> the process.
> 
> --
> Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
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