Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 18:01:02 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Letter to DOJ and State Attorney Message-ID: <199805110101.SAA00877@rah.star-gate.com>
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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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, 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 Window 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 Open Source OS platforms such as FreeBSD ( http://www.freebsd.org ) that there will not be any ill forthcoming action from Microsoft. Given that FreeBSD is supported world-wide and its developement is conducted in an open forum , I believe that FreeBSD can provide honest innovation. For example, please visit http://www.thinker.org which is a web server farm of FreeBSD systems serving images from a 3 Terabyte database, http://www.thinker.org/imagebase/index-2.html which clearly states that the image database is a joint project between the San Francisco Fine Arts and the Computer Science Division of the University of California at Berkeley;additionally, I have the original e-mail announcement stating that the image database is managed by a farm of FreeBSD systems should you be interested. Sincereley Yours, <your signature> <enclosed Ralph Nader's letter> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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