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To: Golden Eagle

Look, if you insist on sending your money to billionaires for something you can get for free, go right ahead. It's when those billionaires make their fortune by controlling what should be open, public standards that I get upset.

Think about how stupid it is to let that happen. Imagine what television and radio would be like if the public had been stupid enough in the past to let some corporation control the transmission standards and force anyone who wants to sell TVs or TV transmitters to pay a royalty in perpetuity. Had someone like Bill Gates developed those standards, that could be the situation today.

Imagine an Internet in which you have second-class or no access if you don't use MS products. That's where we could well be today if MS were allowed to do whatever they want.


22 posted on 12/11/2006 12:56:23 PM PST by RussP
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To: RussP
Imagine an Internet in which you have second-class or no access if you don't use MS products. That's where we could well be today if MS were allowed to do whatever they want.

Sounds like paranoid delusion to me, how exactly are you claiming that will happen? This better be good, since you're asking me to support leftist socialists like Stallman instead.

24 posted on 12/11/2006 5:49:32 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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