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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. Prosta Fyrsta by FunkSoulBrother · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    l'chaim!

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

    WTF? I'm fast today

  3. 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.

    2. Re:Because Nader took votes from Gore... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yo, fucknuts - you are assuming that if someone didn't vote for Nader, then they would have voted for Gore. Yah, yah. Flap flap flap. Your gums are going to get all chaffed if you keep it up. Go back to wacking off to the Sears catalog, asswipe.

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