How the DOJ/MS Settlement was Reached

Drek was among the many who wrote in to tell us about the following: "Wired is running an article about how the MS/DoJ settlement was reached. More importantly, the DoJ has set up an email address where citizens can send comments about the case: microsoft.atr@usdoj.gov. This might be a good way for Slashdotters to do their civic duty."The address has been around for a bit, but still, a renewed call for comment.

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a thousand goatse.cx later...

[rebelcool]

Yeah. A few thousand from messages by:

A. People who don't know anything about law (99.9999% of slashdot).

B. People who just hate microsoft.

C. Losers with too much time on their hands, crapflooding the mailbox.

Yeah..i'm sure they're going to pay a whole lot of attention to the one or two actual decent messages which get through the noise. Good plan kids.

Testify Brother!

[letchhausen]

Once again we have been bent over for an ass raping by Bill Gates and his republican cohorts. Of course what do I care since:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."

--Lord Alexander Tyler on the fall of the Athenian republic

I figure in the face of this and the recent Anti-Terrorist Bill (the signing of which has scared me more than Bin Laden and Anthrax combined) that we are on our merry way back to bondage. The good thing is that the first to be lined up and shot will be those stupid green fuckers who were so high on pot and their rose tinted hippie glasses that they voted for Nader in the last election.