"David Roden (Akron OH USA)" wrote: > Thats what Microsoft thought too. See how Linux & FreeBSD are slowly penetrating the market. Take a leaf out of the free-software philosophy and apply it automobiles (=EV) ;-)
My answer to automakers would be to design a simple car that any reasonable person could put together with off-the-shelf parts. Retain the ownership of the design but make it freely available for downloading and use by anyone just like the free_software guys. Regards Harsha Godavari > On 12 Oct 2002 at 4:01, josh wrote: > > > *How* is the ZEV mandate a fuel economy standard? > > The automakers fought to place CAFE (fuel efficiency) under the control of > the highly cooperative NHTSA, and get a guarantee of no "interference" in >> The federal justice department has apparently bought this completely > specious argument, which just goes to show you how thorougly big business > (including GM, DC and Ford) have every government branch -- executive, > legislative, and judicial -- under control. As I've said before, > corporations are now the de facto government of the US. > > The fox has tenure as chicken coop guard, and he's licking his chops.
