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From: Javilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 2:43 AM
Subject: Re: WC:>: Why I write freeware
> What would they sue for... or would they care?
It is their solution to the growing popularity of Linux and free software.
> Legal Harassment type suits have been filed against people; but when
>the courts realize what is going on, they generally hit the filers. I am
>sure the software community in general would do their best to act as
>interested parties, friends of the court, etc. in support of the right to
>write software. It is also possible to approach this as a purely freedom
>of speech / freedom of expression constitutional angle.
>
> And... contempt of court charges have no fixed durations...
>
> If this is true, then... well... Unkle Billy isn't the only guy there
>with a memory leak and a stack wrap incursion on his code segment. Time
>to power MS down, cause it's in microcode, and the reset button isn't
>going to clear it! I don't know how much the DOJ could really do... If
>he's trained his underlings, it might be just like cutting up starfish and
>tossing them back. (Each piece regenerates another whole.) Do they have
>corporate death penalties, in which the executives are forbidden to engage
>in a particular field of endeavor for some time?
>
> But you know, BG could still walk out of a major jail term as a
>Nobel prize winner. Scenario: He gets AIDS from unnatural activities in
>prison. In a desperate search for a cure, he pours his billions into AIDS
>research, and finds a cure. With or without the donation to the good of
>humanity, he and his team would get showered with prizes.
>
> (I really don't think he would do well in prison! Not between his
>psychological need for control, and his soft white flesh.
>already has rages that he has learned to control, I think the resulting
>hormonal and adrenalin excursions could ruin his hardware, not to mention
>warp his software much further; kind of like taking a new engine out and
>trying to do the Indy 500 with it before breaking it in. He might even be
>declared insane after that, to keep him from doing a lot of black ops with
>his fortune. The book "The Microsoft File" suggests there is already a
>fair bit of black ops going on in some of their code.)
>
> When you really look at it tough, software is a piddling market.
>Pharmaceuticals are a better market. Professionals are taught to
>administer very expensive things in educational institutions funded by the
>pharmaceutical co's. Doctors who no longer seem to look for causes, just
>treat symptoms as per The Book. And people who are motivated by Pain and
>Suffering, cough up all the money the pharmaceutical co's want just to
>stay sick but out of pain.
>
> BG is in the wrong business. His mind set is not unique! Perhaps
>modestly dated, Frick, Carnegie, Rockefeller, etc. come to mind; but there
>are plenty of other guys playing with patents that do worse than BG.
>Having the DOJ take BG down might remind a lot of them to ease up.
>
>
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