I see that Joseph has chosen to copy parts of my answer to him and send it
to the list. I apologize to everyone for not posting that answer to him to
the list, as I thought, and still think this discussion is totally
off-topic and I did not want to inconvenience the list with wild arguments
and ranting.
My reply to Joseph was directly to him with a copy to Joe Geiser. I
thought I had made a mistake and I checked my sent items, and indeed it is
recorded that I only sent to Joseph and Joe. In light of this incident and
a few other breaches of netiquette which have occurred on this list in the
recent past, I would like to propose the following.
If someone receives a reply directed solely at them or just a few people,
this person should get the permission of the author before posting the
message or parts thereof to the list.
In the current case, Joseph cannot say that he simply hit the "reply all"
button, he had to add the address of the list and also delete Joe Geiser
from the envelope of the message I sent to them only. It also bothers me
that he left out what I consider the good parts of my answer and only
posted what he chose.
Kind regards,
Denys. . .
Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP America, Inc.
(800) 323-8863 (281) 288-7438 Fax: (281) 355-6879
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Uhrig [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 1997 10:46 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: DOJ vs. MS (was Wildly off-topic...) -Reply
"Denys P. Beauchemin" <[log in to unmask]> said:
>>However, I do not believe it is the purview of the government to
decide what a company can put in its operating system, or even what
defines an operating system.<<
Nor do I, however this is called framing the question and it's
irrelevant to the reasons the government has decided to go after
Microsoft. I personally do not believe that it is the purview of
Microsoft to use raw power to destroy our ability to choose.
>>I laud you for wanting the freest of competition, but in the real
world, this is not possible. <<
So might makes right? Then you should not be too upset that
Microsoft is being called to the carpet by someone more powerful and
with more historical legitimacy than themselves :) It's always been
a great mystery to me that the most cherished goal of the competing
entities in the free market is to eliminate the free market :)
>>Consider this though, whilst everyone decries Mickey$oft's strong
arm tactics, has anyone thanked them for the widespread acceptance of
PCs which facilitated the access to the Internet. <<
Some of us are of the opinion that the net effect of Microsoft's
monopoly has been to hold back technology development and acceptance
because everyone has been forced to pay homage to inferior
standards. First rate object oriented programming technology has
been available for over ten years.
Speaking as a programmer... the Java that Microsoft for purely
selfish reasons want's to marginalize, co-op, or kill is the Java
that has the potential of making all of our lives much much easier.
My opinions by the way are my own.
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