On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:14:07 -0500, you wrote: > > >"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) ;-)
Good point, although I always thought the free software makers, if they really wanted to defeat one of the world's top and most powerful companies, took their time about it, and put off success for a decade or more by doing a poor job of putting themselves in the position of those already using the bad product and seeing what it would take to migrate over. >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. >
