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Re: And another happy family, courtesy of Linux ...

  • Subject: Re: And another happy family, courtesy of Linux ...
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 09:25:49 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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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?

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
I hate babies.  They're so human.
		-- H.H. Munro

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