Robert Wittig wrote: > > > I think what you ask for is illegal. > > However, if you are as poor as I, that wont matter. > > the lawyers are not going to sue if you dont have > > the money to make it worth their while. > > Yes, if I am understanding the request, not only is it illegal, > it is very impractical, since Workgroups for Windows (3.11) Whatever it is, or however large it is, what I think I have in mind is a civil disobediance demonstration.
If Microsoft is going to sue me, dont they havta take me into court and get a jury to assign damages? Well, is there a jury in this nation that would? Now, see I am not talking about some large organizations with the assets to pay, but me, and millions like me, who dont have nearly enough assets to make it pay. If we all did this, and microsoft sued every one of us, (we who are all ready in hock up to eyeballs with Visa) it would havta pay their lawyers out of their own back pocket. Hmmm. lessee, a million lawsuits, a million and a half lawyers, clerks, and judges. That'd be five grand or so per case- or cost Microsoft, in total, about five billion dollars. Just cause you cant get blood out of a stoner. And believe me, there are millions of stoners out here. We'd sure like to see Microsoft try. :8-} Are they going to come and seize a million 486 computers? Yeahahahahahaha right. Jeee, we're awful worried. And as for that Austrialian NGO, duck soup. Do just what any transnational would do. form a corporate shell. have some friends and kinfolk of the affected NGO form another non-profit. Have that second shell accept donated systems and pay no attention when staff members put win 3.1 on whenever it's a good fit with the hardware. Of course the 'management' doesnt know this. It follows the Huey P. Long school of business: 1 Never say over the phone what you can say in person. 2 Never speak when you can nod. 3 Never nod when you can smile. Since this is being done by volunteers, the management does not pay much attention. The organization is housed in rented space, which itself is donated. The management mind you, is not financially liable for anything which the corporation does, and cannot be sued personally. And if the organization has no assets, no bank acct, it cannot be sued either. And the original NGO is nothing but a distribution system, and knows nothing about what is distributed, any more than Fed-X does. So, is Micky$sloth going to sue the end user in some village in East Timor? Yeahahahahahah.... I didnt read real carefully, thought it referred to win 3.1 which I recall came on five 1.44 floppies. I'd be kinda surprised if RAR could not crunch that down to a 5meg file, which is about a third of Netscape. I dunno if everyone could get it as an attachment. but feel free to try. And if someone will make arrangements to setup a shell, I'd be perfectly happy to post win 3.1 or whatever on my own: http://www.dc-pc.com ... let them come and git me. if they can find me. thing is, I live on the wrong side of the county line, which is the telco LATA line. Arkansas telephone cant come across the line, and Alltel from Harrison wants me to pay 30,000$ to bring the lines across the Little Red River, a coupla miles. I found it cheaper to string my own wire thru the woods. Upshot is, not even the phone company knows where I live, and if you come up here in a plain jane four door ford, friends will tell you they have no idea who you are looking for. This is beginning to look like fun. Everyone, who gets laid off by a transnat, uses zer computer to make M$ software available free. Everyone who is still working, make sure the transnat has paid the licensing fees. If not, I'm sure there are lawyers who want to talk with you about what your cut on the damage suit will be. Bounty money. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
