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   Subject: Re: Problems after installing Ubuntu (fairly long)   
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   On 26 Feb 2007 06:29:04 GMT, Joe LaVigne    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:43:40 +0000, Harold Stevens wrote:   
   >   
   >> In <54f175F1vm1beU3@mid.individual.net> Joe LaVigne:   
   >>    
   >> [Snip...]   
   >>    
   >>> 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.   
      
      
   Another good point. This really is a job for our politicians. This   
   whole DRM thing is not being driven my Microsoft; it's being driven by   
   the "content providers". The question to worry about is whether Linux   
   will be attacked for NOT having coercive DRM integrated. I'd be more   
   worried about that if I was a Linux guy than MS. If anything, the more   
   coercive MS is, the more folks will switch.   
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