[ale] OT: submit your own anti-trust complaint against Microsoft

[Tom & JaVonn]

Geoffrey:

An let's not forget Andrew Grygus of Automation Access:

http://www.aaxnet.com

who sums up the issues and includes lot of links to support this thesis.

Tom
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:05:54 -0400
Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:

> synco gibraldter wrote:
> > i wouldn't even know where to begin sorting through the insults
> > looking for tidbits of argument to rebut within the last several
> > responses.  no sense in carrying the thread much further.
> 
> I'll tell you what.  Do a little research and come back to the list. 
> Research what the experts say about Microsoft technologies.  Here are a 
> couple of folks you should look into:
> 
> Aviel D. Rubin
> 
> http://avirubin.com/passport.html
> 
> Bill Cheswick
> 
> http://www.cheswick.com/ches/cheap/tunnelsolution.html
> 
> Bruce Schneier
> 
> http://www.counterpane.com/pptpv2-paper.html
> 
> Steve Bellovin
> 
> Now pick up the book "The Microsoft File: The Secret Case Against Bill 
> Gates (Random House, 1998)" by Wendy Rohm.  I'd give you my copy, but I 
> already gave it to someone else.  I'll pay for it.  If you can't find 
> it, I'll contact Wendy and get a copy for you.  Read it.
> 
> Now go check out the archives of the am-info list.  Look at the older 
> ones, the list has been wasting away of late:
> 
> http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/am-info/
> 
> Pay particular attention go folks like Mitch Stone, Joe Barr.
> 
> What you should get from this is a couple of things:
> 
> 1. Microsoft is a marketing company, not a software company
> 2. Microsoft has yet to put computer security on the front burner.
> 3. Microsoft has destroyed companies and in doing so, people's lives.
> 4. Microsoft technology pretty well sucks.
> 5. Microsoft enhances their technology in order to push upgrades, not to 
> better their products.
> 
> Finally, I personally think Bill Gates is an evil person.  He would sell 
> his mother or child to make a buck.
> 
> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
> Think about it...
> 
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