A long, painful, while.

The REAL problem that I see is that this ruling, if MS is allowed to wriggle on it, spells the death of the US software industry.

MS will continue to crush any and all competition.

The trend I'm predicting is for more and more of the core programmers (think Linux kernel and such) will not be US citizens. It will be easier and safer to operate somewhere other than the US.

Rather than exporting Windows and importing cash from every other country, our software industry will end up just like our home electronics industry.

MS won't be idle during its decline. It has a huge war chest. It still has a monopoly. It can buy a lot of legislation.

But the end result will be the same, the jobs will be leaving the US.

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(Schmidt (?) - the ex M$ ""Security"" VP now in DOJ employ, I mean - if that's his name.)

Never mind (well, I appreciate that folks here Must Mind..) the mere Borg assimilation of any remaining conceivable competition - extrapolate next:

A CPU S/N tied to Passport by-any-stupid new name, with all the built-in preps for S/Ns on Everything (accessory) legal to be sold = no cut & paste w/o an individual permit from 'author' == death of US access to the former phenom called The Internet. Petabytes of 'security' info monitored=controlled by M$ or lapdog surrogate.

With the NOISE of a bellicose Rightest-possible Wing group drowning out the outraged, small knowledgeable group left here; a junta ready to defy the world and invade perhaps several countries.. Add-on the gutless Demo clan, the utter unlikeliness of any 3rd Constitution Party.. Sprinkle in the daily panic propaganda orchestrated over the sheep -

Not only may there be only a M$-controlled remnant of a "computer industry"; one with M$-devised sanctions effectively rendering all OS source access to the net illegal if not impossible: the merely devastating US bizness losses may be dwarfed by a fact of most information management becoming solely Corp-owned in the US. (Instead of just Mostly-Corp-owned)

And that's only what appears obvious (to me anyway) immediately; I'm sure I haven't noticed a plethora of variants.

This woman may prove to have been the most destructive Lackey yet - producing more devastating effects than even Scalia's lap-dog. With this mandate, I see no easy escape on the horizon - given the attitude of the vast majority, their ignorance of the consequences - and the current panic mode.

'Democracy' was a noble idea, and it lasted barely a couple centuries. That such a banal bunch of barbarians were able to seed its demise - is the shame of our National insouciance in all worldly matters.

Ashton

Post #60,686 by Brandioch 11/1/02 11:45:24 PM Reply	A long, painful, while. The REAL problem that I see is that this ruling, if MS is allowed to wriggle on it, spells the death of the US software industry. MS will continue to crush any and all competition. The trend I'm predicting is for more and more of the core programmers (think Linux kernel and such) will not be US citizens. It will be easier and safer to operate somewhere other than the US. Rather than exporting Windows and importing cash from every other country, our software industry will end up just like our home electronics industry. MS won't be idle during its decline. It has a huge war chest. It still has a monopoly. It can buy a lot of legislation. But the end result will be the same, the jobs will be leaving the US.
Post #60,688 by jake123 11/1/02 11:50:16 PM Reply	I absolutely agree. --\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \r\n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \r\n Laval Qu\ufffdbec Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #60,706 by Ashton 11/2/02 4:21:19 AM Reply	Schmidt + Ashcroft + THIS: means far more than industry loss (Schmidt (?) - the ex M$ ""Security"" VP now in DOJ employ, I mean - if that's his name.) Never mind (well, I appreciate that folks here Must Mind..) the mere Borg assimilation of any remaining conceivable competition - extrapolate next: A CPU S/N tied to Passport by-any-stupid new name, with all the built-in preps for S/Ns on Everything (accessory) legal to be sold = no cut & paste w/o an individual permit from 'author' == death of US access to the former phenom called The Internet. Petabytes of 'security' info monitored=controlled by M$ or lapdog surrogate. With the NOISE of a bellicose Rightest-possible Wing group drowning out the outraged, small knowledgeable group left here; a junta ready to defy the world and invade perhaps several countries.. Add-on the gutless Demo clan, the utter unlikeliness of any 3rd Constitution Party.. Sprinkle in the daily panic propaganda orchestrated over the sheep - Not only may there be only a M$-controlled remnant of a "computer industry"; one with M$-devised sanctions effectively rendering all OS source access to the net illegal if not impossible: the merely devastating US bizness losses may be dwarfed by a fact of most information management becoming solely Corp-owned in the US. (Instead of just Mostly-Corp-owned) And that's only what appears obvious (to me anyway) immediately; I'm sure I haven't noticed a plethora of variants. This woman may prove to have been the most destructive Lackey yet - producing more devastating effects than even Scalia's lap-dog. With this mandate, I see no easy escape on the horizon - given the attitude of the vast majority, their ignorance of the consequences - and the current panic mode. 'Democracy' was a noble idea, and it lasted barely a couple centuries. That such a banal bunch of barbarians were able to seed its demise - is the shame of our National insouciance in all worldly matters. Ashton If Only. . Judge Jackson could have kept his lip zipped . . . Just another fucking Ego-besotted twit, his fine intellectual work entirely undone by himself.

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