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Date:      Sun, 10 May 1998 22:02:14 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Benjamin Lewis <bhlewis@gte.net>
Cc:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Letter to DOJ and State Attorney 
Message-ID:  <9490.894862934@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 May 1998 22:52:57 CDT." <199805110352.WAA29948@home.bhl> 

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> Although FreeBSD users like ourselves might like to see FreeBSD being 
> advocated by the Justice Department, the DOJ is (supposed to be) about 
> protecting all citizens and not promoting one organization at the expense of 
> another.  The advocacy would make the letter seem be from a man who wants the

Probably even more importantly though, a letter which slams Microsoft
and then goes on to directly suggest a competing alternative is likely
to be far less effective than one which attempts to pit cause against
cause.  You don't want to be making this a FreeBSD vs Microsoft fight
since we're clearly too small for that right now.  You want to be
making this a "Free software" vs Microsoft fight or, on an even larger
battlefield, an "American* software industry's larger interests vs
Microsoft" fight if you're trying to get the maximum amount of
political weight behind you.

- Jordan

* I know it's actually a "world software industry interests vs Microsoft"
  issue, but if you're writing to the American justice dept. you have to
  kind of keep in mind their primary area of interest. :)

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