Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:29:07 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <jacks@sage-american.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Smashing Bill Gates necessary? Message-ID: <001001c161d5$58184b40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20011030082719.00fa6e38@mail.sage-american.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: jacks@sage-american.com [mailto:jacks@sage-american.com] >Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 6:27 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; >freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: Smashing Bill Gates necessary? > > > >"...Whoah there! Your way, way out of line...." > >Ted: While I have a lot of respect for your expertise in BSD, I was unaware >you also practiced law... or do you have a law degree specializing in >anti-trust? The findings of the court are in plain English. Anyone can read them. They are also the law of the land unless some future appeal to the US Supreme Court becomes likely and the judgement is overturned. Sorry but I'm pretty disgusted by people running around talking like the court's judgement on this is some kind of random opinion. It's the law at the current time. Microsoft has been found in a court with jurisdiction - no several courts - to be an illegal monopoly. Everyone has opinions about laws and court judgements out there. My beef with your statement was not that your opinion that the judgement is wrong or bad is invalid - my beef is your statement that just because some people don't like the findings of the court that the findings are meaningless. It's a fine hair to split perhaps - but right now Microsoft is running around playing victim and they are doing it for a blatant and obvious reason. They are doing it because they intend once the judgement is final to attempt to get Congress to pass some laws and gut the judgement. When you say things like "bust him up without any good reason" you are just repeating the same bullshit from Microsoft's PR department. There IS a good reason to bust them up - they are breaking the law which makes them criminals. We are past the point at which it's a matter of opinion as to whether Microsoft is engaged in illegal criminal activity. It's now a FACT. They ARE, according to how the court has interpreted the law of the land. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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