Interesting MS Comments

[CIE-Keith]

I think your talking revolt here.  I think we will take only so much
before we revolt.

Think proabition.

One of the good things about big government is it is hard to get
everyone to agree.  By the time enough of them agree we will be
thinking fondly about what windows used to be...........

Keith Smith





----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Buechler <peter.buechler@home.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>; Lucas Vogel
<lvogel@exponent.com>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Interesting MS Comments


> 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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