From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 10 22:26:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA14003 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 22:26:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13996 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 22:26:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02484 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 22:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199805110526.WAA02484@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Letter to DOJ: Part II Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 22:26:51 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG California state attorney's web page which I easily found thru Yahoo: http://caag.state.ca.us/ DOJ's Anti Trust Division contact web page: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/index.html For your review: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your Honor, The purpose of this letter is to ask you to block the Microsoft's Win98 release until it is clear that its monopolistic practice ceases. I believe that one the tightest strong-holds that Microsoft has on the PC industry is the way that Windows is bundled with virtually every PC now sold. This serves as a way to block any other competing operating system and sets the stage for application dominance by Microsoft. Enclosed is Ralph Nader's letter which was submitted to major PC manufacturers . Naturally, there was no response from the PC manufacturers. Clearly, PC manufacturers need to have re-assurance that if they start distributing alternative operating systems that no retribution from Microsoft would be forthcoming. To not act in this matter will clearly stiffle the creative process in the software industry from which Microsoft itself rose from. Sincereley Yours, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message