__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Sunday 21 January 2007 12:52 \__
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 19 January 2007 08:12 \__
>
>> begin oe_protect.scr
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> __/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Friday 12 January 2007 17:01 \__
>>>
>>>> "The Tennessee Department of Education will distribute $15,315,586.25
>>>> in software vouchers to local school systems as a result of a
>>>> settlement in a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation"
>>>>
>>>> "Local administrators may use software vouchers for current or future
>>>> Microsoft operating system software"
>>>>
>>>> http://www.state.tn.us/education/news/nr/2006/12_18_06.shtml
>>>
>>> Microsoft was found guilty. Its payment is admission of this (merely an
>>> attempt to escape prosection). Why the heck should more software be
>>> acquired from the criminal? Why does this recur? It's outrageous.
>>>
>>> The scenario is intended to end up with jailed executives, not a
>>> settlement that shackles even /more/ people, especially now that software
>>> is made which is more Draconian than ever before.
>>>
>>> Parables involving drug dealers spring to mind.
>>>
>>
>> This is the height of third-world and US corruption. I've no idea how
>> on earth anyone could possibly consider this to be a settlement of any
>> kind. Are Microsoft not considered to be the world's richest company by
>> many? Should they not be fined? Do not the legal people understand
>> that Microsoft's production costs are ZERO? Do they not understand that
>> vouchers for Microsoft software merely means that Microsoft have yet
>> again broken the law and got away with it?
>
> The "production cost" part of your argument is a nice one... worth a mental
> note! Punish the drug dealer by giving him a lethal (but not deadly) doze
> of cocaine. Microsoft is trippin'.
Oops. I meant to write "dose", not "doze". But I guess a "doze of cocaine"
could be justified as well. Put them to sleep...
--
~~ Best wishes
everytime you say things like this i just think of that cult of people
who send around .doc files. i dont want to communicate with people who
talk in .doc format, but they do not wish to use something else, so
they discredit those without word. --Ed, c.o.l.a.
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