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   From: Joe LaVigne    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Problems after installing Ubuntu (fairly long)   
   Date: 26 Feb 2007 06:29:04 GMT   
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   On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:43:40 +0000, Harold Stevens wrote:   
      
   > In <54f175F1vm1beU3@mid.individual.net> Joe LaVigne:   
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   > [Snip...]   
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   >> I am not sure that this would fly.  It would fly fully in the face of the   
   >> previous anti-trust judgment against them.   
   >    
   > However, the US DOJ hasn't been especially tough with M$ after their latest   
   > delivery of a well-earned slap on the wrist. It takes a lot of cash to help   
   > elected American officials make the "correct" choices.    :)   
   >    
   > IMO, M$ did the Novell Bogopatent Axis Nonagression Pact to deliver threats   
   > like this without skirting too close to the antitrust tarpit. It also makes   
   > for great M$ propaganda about "cooperation" with FOSS developers.   
   >    
   > If you want to see the M$ FUD Master pros in action recently, check it out:   
   >    
   >         http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37835   
   >   
      
   Right.  MS will threaten, and try to coerce, but has no legal footing, and   
   they know it.   
      
   The justice department doesn't have to bring MS up on charges for the   
   anti-trust violations.  All it will take is a single hardware vendor with   
   any kind of scratch to sue MS and win (which they will, based on the   
   precedent of the previous judgment), and the entire structure of the new   
   licensing agreement would be thrown out the window for everyone.   
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