From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 10 15:55:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7AE1542B for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:55:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA10883; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:54:44 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991110165117.04522100@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:54:53 -0700 To: angussf@geoapps.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" In-Reply-To: <199911102217.WAA15019@baygull.rtd.com> References: <3825FFEF.4D40DD20@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:37 PM 11/10/1999 -0700, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: >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. Nonsense. What the government seeks to rein in is not software design but rather anti-competitive business practices. The fact that some of the practices were implemented by tweaking the software is only incidental to the case, and the government is well aware of this. To say that the government should not intervene because Microsoft's illegal actions were accomplished (in part) via software design is akin to saying that the government should not punish fraud because it is accomplished via speech. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message