Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 18:57:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518185426.5601A-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <6671.895541906@time.cdrom.com>
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Hooray! Finally someone else who sees two wrongs don't make a right.
Jordan, although we may get lynched for this, thanks for the jolt of
rationality :-)
Kevin
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > I know I am going out on a limbe here, but I do not think the Justice
> > Department should make any decisions on the software industry, and I think
> > Microsoft should be allowed to ship whatever the hell it wants.
>
> I agree totally. The people who are so enthusiastically
> rah-rah-rahing about the idea of the Justice dept. pissing in
> Microsoft's breakfast cereal by successfully arguing that including a
> browser with an OS constitutes some sort of anti-trust violation are,
> not to put too fine a point on it, being complete idiots. By
> endorsing such a precedent, they are essentially building the
> government a legal assault weapon, aiming it at part of the software
> industry and then naively assuming that it won't be turned in their
> direction once it's done shooting at Microsoft.
>
> We're already in a hell of our own making over the issue of software
> patents (we asked for these laws, the goverment said yes, now we've
> screwed ourselves) and some people would now like to essentially say
> that the U.S. government, those wonderfully intelligent people who
> brought us export restrictions on cryptographic software which can be
> printed on a T-shirt and walked out of the country, should judge just
> which features a programmer can and cannot put into his or her OS.
>
> Frankly, putting IE into Win95 was the next logical step for Microsoft
> to make and I applaud Bill for having the guts to give the government
> the finger on this one. This government has no business saying what
> Microsoft can or cannot put into its software products and they have
> no business saying what can go into MY products either. I'm at least
> smart enough to see that I can't argue for my freedom and deny
> Microsoft's without becoming a complete hypocrite in the process.
> Think about it, folks. The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily
> your friend.
>
> - Jordan
>
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