Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 20:37:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Letter to DOJ: Part II Message-ID: <19980511203756.I20153@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199805110526.WAA02484@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Sun, May 10, 1998 at 10:26:51PM -0700 References: <199805110526.WAA02484@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Sun, 10 May 1998 at 22:26:51 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > California state attorney's web page which I easily found thru Yahoo: > > http://caag.state.ca.us/ OK, I've been skimming these messages as they came through. Some people have said "why restrict this to the USA, it's a global problem". There are some answers to that question, but why restrict it to a state? I can't see anything on this page which relates to Microsoft, and a search for "microsoft" returns No Documents Found. > 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 stifle > process in the software industry from which Microsoft itself > rose from. Not a bad start. I think that it makes sense for everybody to modify the wording ts something he feels comfortable with. That notwithstanding, the addressees will recognize that "there's a den of them out there somewhere". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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