begin quoting DJA as of Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 01:56:30PM -0800: [snip] > Strong arming OEM's is one thing. Strong arming the politicians and the > very government itself is another. If M$ becomes as adept and political > influence as they have at marketing, we have big problems ahead. Gates > and Co. are not content to own the computer software market. They > apparently want to own everything. They may not be content even then. > Maybe owning every person will satisfy them. Indeed. I tend to regard the activities of lobbies as sanctioned corruption.
> Who knows, maybe the natural order of Human behavior is that all forms > of government eventually degenerate to Fascism. Heh. And I thought I tended towards the cynical. :) -Stewart "The government should use public-domain and GOTS software." Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
