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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Linonut ] on Friday 01 September 2006 15:58 \__
>
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Richard Rasker belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>> And so on and so on ... I patiently demonstrated everything and answered
>>> all their questions - all but te final one: "But why do people keep
>>> paying for Windows when you can get all this for free?" This turned out to
>>> be the only question I couldn't answer in a satisfactory manner ...
>>
>> Just point them to this link:
>>
>> http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95000750
>>
>> Court Ruling
>> Was No Victory
>> For Microsoft
>> King Pyrrhus, meet Bill Gates.
>>
>> BY ROBERT H. BORK AND KENNETH W. STARR
>> Thursday, July 5, 2001 12:01 a.m. EDT
>>
>> Microsoft will continue to argue that any serious remedy would damage
>> innovation. But Microsoft suppressed the innovation of Netscape, Sun
>> and Intel. In any case, Microsoft is hardly a leading innovator. It
>> bought the technologies for its major products. Its genius has been
>> in business and predation, not innovation.
>>
>> Microsoft's response to the legal threat it continues to face is to
>> unleash a swarm of lobbyists and lawyers upon the administration and
>> Congress to urge a quick settlement. Judging from its past
>> negotiations with the Department of Justice, the company will not
>> accept any settlement that seriously inhibits its ability to engage
>> in predation.
>
> Get a load of this. Just published and I suspect it will receive less
> attention than deserved.
>
> Changing the (Federal) Report, After the Vote
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| That agreement was nearly imperiled last weekend, though. Gerri
>| Elliott, corporate vice president at Microsoft's Worldwide Public
>| Sector division, sent an e-mail message to fellow commissioners Friday
>| evening saying that she "vigorously" objected to a paragraph in which
>| the panel embraced and encouraged the development of open source software
>| and open content projects in higher education. The paragraph read like
>| this:
>|
>| "The commission encourages the creation of incentives to promote
>| the development of open-source and open-content projects at universities
>| and colleges across the United States, enabling the open sharing of
>| educational materials from a variety of institutions, disciplines, and
>| educational perspectives. Such a portal could stimulate innovation, and
>| serve as the leading resource for teaching and learning. New initiatives
>| such as OpenCourseWare, the Open Learning Initiative, the Sakai Project,
>| and the Google Book project hold out the potential of providing universal
>| access both to general knowledge and to higher education."
> `----
>
> http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission
>
Can't have public money and student's own money going towards their own
education, can we, when it could be going into Microsoft's vast coffers
- that would be a crime against, err, Microsoft?
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