Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: software racism ?
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:37:18 -0700 Ronald C. Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > It's all well and good to claim that there's a violation of the Sherman > Anti-Trust Act, but someone has to bring charges against MS and AOL/Time > Warner and that someone is the U.S. Justice Department. I haven't heard > that they are taking any new interest in this. Most people are unconcerned and don't care that M$ is engaged in illegal, unethical, anti-competitive and monopolistic business practices because they feel that M$ should and ought to be the universal standard for everybody. They think their M$ operating systems and their M$ software is superior to everybody else's and they think the whole world should buckle under and conform to the Micro$oft ways of doing things. The problem with their holding such opinions as those is this: If M$ is allowed to get away with such illegal business practices with such impunity, then every other business enterprise ought to be allowed to get away with the same kinds of shenanigans. What if all the other software companies were to go about organizing a huge conspiracy to screw with Micro$oft in the same ways that Micro$oft is screwing with them? In other words, if white people are allowed to get away with lynching black people, then black people ought to be allowed to get away with lynching white people. If protestants in Northern Ireland are allowed to throw bricks at catholics, then catholics ought to be allowed to throw bricks at protestants. Civilized peoples cannot put up with such anarchy as this. The same laws must be applied equally to everybody, no matter who you are and no matter how much favor you have curried with the government. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ ******************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the single word Unsubscribe as the subject. You MUST use the same address with which you subscribed! ********************************************************
