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Why The U.S. Surrendered To Microsoft

Posted by timothy on from the follow-the-money dept.

hoggardb writes: "The Nation has an excellent column by Eben Moglen, general counsel of the FSF, on why the U.S. has surrendered to Microsoft: because the big campaign contributors like Hollywood and PC manufacturers now want Microsoft to stay a monopoly." Not everyone will agree about the PC makers, but the Hollywood argument is harder to sidestep. The free-marketeer in me especially likes the last paragraph -- Moglen didn't get to be general counsel of the FSF for nothing.

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  1. uh by Guillaume+Ross · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF? I'm fast today

  2. Because Nader took votes from Gore... by ajuda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If Nader hadn't run, Gore would have won.
    If Gore had won, we would see the government acting in a different way.

    A vote for Nader was a vote for big business... maybe that should be his new slogan!

    1. Re:Because Nader took votes from Gore... by gruntvald · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      And then we'd get to see the great Gore, at war. Niiice. Besides, Nader took less than 2% (if I remember right) of the votes, anyway. But I thought you democrats stated that Gore actually won anyway. So which is it - did he win, or lose? You can't have it both ways. Now, why don't you go hang out with the CA-D who thinks we SHOULDN'T go to war, (maybe we'll hurt bin ladens feelings?) and STFU.