On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:57:37PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> courts in other jurisdictions too.  Maybe George W. Bush and his friends
> can change the tunes sung by the courts, but I hope he'll have a much
> harder time changing the facts recorded so far by history.

It would be entirely irresponsible to think that it can only be about
"friends."  It _is_ possible for someone to disagree with your opinion
based on the concepts of right and wrong.


> so long as the hardware vendors are forced by law to sell the software
> with a separate, visible, sticker price.

Why?  Why is it ok for hw vendors to be "forced" by one entity to
perform a certain action, meanwhile not be (ostensibly) "forced" by
another to perform some other action?

I don't see any greater respect for free will in that statement than I
do in the accusations of behavior being leveled at MS.


Not to say that I am happy about the current situation; if I were, I
doubt I'd be playing with *nixes all the time. ;)  Please don't take my
message personally, just know that there are other perspectives out
there.  I'm copying this to netbsd-advocacy, if there is any
continuation of this thread I hope it will go there and not to
netbsd-users, where the pollution level is becoming quite high
lately....