Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 00:13:30 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "David Johnson" <djohnson@acuson.com>, "Kenneth P. Stox" <stox@imagescape.com> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <000101c10458$d43d39e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3B4208FC.6C9AB8F7@acuson.com>
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Bill Gates has made no secret of his belief that government needs to stay the fuck out of High Tech. If he were contributing to poliical causes, doing that effectvely undercuts his hands-off arguement Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Johnson >Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:04 AM >To: Kenneth P. Stox >Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? > > >"Kenneth P. Stox" wrote: > >> This is a very recent phenomenon in Mr. Gates career. Until >1997, or so, his >> charitible contributions ( outside of donating copies of >Microsoft products to >> schools ) were virtually zero. > >I have heard the following from my conspiracy buddy friends. I have not >taken the time to check out the veracity. Al Gore's daughter used to >work (interned?) for Microsoft at the time the Microsoft was definitely >in violation the Sporkin decree. Nothing was done while she worked >there. In addition, Microsoft was one of the very few large corporations >that did not contribute funds to political candidates. The wheels of the >DOJ did not start turning until Al Gore's daughter left the company and >Bill Clinton discovered that they hadn't paid protection money. > >David > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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