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Date:      Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:55:31 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Jamie Bowden" <ragnar@sysabend.org>, "Bill Moran" <wmoran@iowna.com>
Cc:        "Flemming Froekjaer" <flemming@froekjaer.org>, <mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Laptop without Windows
Message-ID:  <000401c0ee44$e9a89420$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10106051729370.7646-100000@moo.sysabend.org>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jamie Bowden
>Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 5:32 PM
>
>You can alternately just say No when you are asked if you agree to the
>license terms the first time you start the machine.  Dell can't stop
>shipping Windows, MS will not only up the price, they have threatened
>resellers with refusing them availability at all.  MS has a monopoly, they
>have abused this power and been convicted,

correct

> nothing will be done about it,

incorrect.  Unlike many places this country operates under the rule of law.
Even
convicted criminals have rights, such as the right of appeal.  Microsoft is
a criminal organization but they also have the right to appeal, which they
have.
If they lose the appeal then something _will_ be done about it - that is the
law.

Sorry that the justice system doesen't work as quickly to your satisfaction.
Maybe
you could complain to your Republican representative - it's that party that
has delayed
so many judicial appointments and caused the slowness in the court system.
Did
you vote in the last election?


Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



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