__/ [ 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'.
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