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Posted on 06/10/2005 3:35:49 PM PDT by phoenix_004
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To: Bush2000
When you hand the ChiComs the source code (and don't even try to suggest that MS's Shared Source is the same thing as giving the ChiCom's code that they can compile) with no strings attached, you're giving them a PERMANENT PLATFORM which they can use to oppress their citizens. With Windows, the ChiComs have to pay for continued use and/or upgrades So long as we profit from the chicoms opressing their people its a little more excuseable right?
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06/16/2005 9:11:24 AM PDT
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N3WBI3
(Windows, because throwing good money after bad never goes out of style...)
To: N3WBI3
So long as we profit from the chicoms opressing their people its a little more excuseable right?
Don't put words in my mouth. We're talking about activities which I don't approve of, in the first place. But, given those activities, Linux is by far worse because it provides a PERMANENT PLATFORM upon which the ChiComs can oppress their people.
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06/16/2005 6:06:10 PM PDT
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Bush2000
(Linux -- You Get What You Pay For ... (tm)
To: Bush2000
Wouldn't Window's lower TCO leave the Chinese with more money to invest in their military?
In all seriousness, I do see the point you are making, but I still disagree with you. Please also remember that MS is helping the Chicoms configure this stuff. It's bad enough they get the software, but they are also buying MS's expertise, which is especially galling.
Too bad any opposition to allowing this sort of trading would be crushed like a bug by MS, IBM, Sun, et al.. It might be the one time Bill Gates and Richard Stallman agreed on something.
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06/16/2005 6:06:34 PM PDT
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Salo
To: Salo
Wouldn't Window's lower TCO leave the Chinese with more money to invest in their military?
TCO has no significance to people that employ SLAVE LABOR.
In all seriousness, I do see the point you are making, but I still disagree with you. Please also remember that MS is helping the Chicoms configure this stuff. It's bad enough they get the software, but they are also buying MS's expertise, which is especially galling.
And you think that the Linux "community" isn't providing technical assistance to the ChiComs?!? Get real.
Too bad any opposition to allowing this sort of trading would be crushed like a bug by MS, IBM, Sun, et al.. It might be the one time Bill Gates and Richard Stallman agreed on something.
I think it's incredibly sad and pathetic that the U.S. is putting trade above fundamental human rights.
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06/16/2005 6:26:18 PM PDT
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Bush2000
(Linux -- You Get What You Pay For ... (tm)
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