From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 18 15:06:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17271 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:06:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA17117 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:05:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 4825 invoked by uid 1017); 18 May 1998 21:02:57 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:02:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa To: "Jan B. Koum " cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Stop smoking crack. Nice. Very classy argument. > This is not about Bill Gates having too much > money. This is about monopoly. Go read some history with the following > keywords: Standard Oil, AT&T. Those are commodities that influence the basic needs of people (heat, elctricity, telephones), and not what OS they use to play Quake. If we open the door to this kind of government support, expect a clipper chip inside your phone very shortly. > Monopoly is bad for economy. Monopoly does not help the economy. > Monopoly should be stopped. But what makes this a monopoly? We all have the ability to choose products, and noone is taking that away. I personally will not be using Windows98, and I personally would like to see MS get smart. However, I disagree with this approach. As I stated in other e-mails, we are missing the big picture. We need to focus on promoting emerging technologies, instead of stunting existing ones. Then we can all be winners. They should be investigating MS's poisoning of Java instead of their integrated browser. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message