Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:37:00 -0700 From: "Angus Scott-Fleming" <angussf@geoapps.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <199911102217.WAA15019@baygull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <3825FFEF.4D40DD20@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
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On 7 Nov 99, at 17:40, Pedro Fernando Giffuni wrote:
> Isn't it a good time to be a FreeBSD user? :-).
>
> I read the complete document(WOW, I wasn't aware of everything there).
> Considering a Judge wrote this, I think M$ is in big trouble.
I think the whole computer business is in Big Trouble - once the
government steps in and starts telling us how to run our businesses,
innovation will drop to a crawl as bus.people try to 2nd-guess the govt
regulators.
Not saying MS is/was right, but my solution has always been not to do
business with people whose business ethics are lousy. This is the only
ethical way to deal with people like that. Bringing the power of
government ("the mob") down on them is a short-term fix, but it's a
long-term problem as others will drag the govt. into this arena and
IMHO we'll all suffer for it.
Open-source doesn't suffer from this problem because you can go
elsewhere for support when you don't like the ethics of the business
that's using/selling it.
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