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Date:      Fri, 29 May 2009 09:10:52 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint
Message-ID:  <b79ecaef0905290110w4021cb22y5004c1ba368f5e30@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905290939560.5233@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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2009/5/29 Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>:
>> The EU has acted against two companies (Microsoft and Intel) who have used
>> illegal business methods to protect and extend their monopolies and
>> suppress
>> competition.
>
> This is just the occasion to get another tax by UE clerks. As Microsoft and
> Intel just pay a fine, and doesn't really change their behaviour, it's just
> tax that final users pay.
>
> Anyway i am against any such regulations. Free Market is a best regulator.
> As people DO LIKE their products and the slavery by using them - their
> problem.
>

Do you really think the free market protects our freedoms? Remember
the East India Company?

Chris

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