[lug] Question on allowable posts to BLUG

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Don't shoot the messenger.  I do not think that every Microsoft
employee is
bad.  Most people in the workforce need to feed a family, pay rent, ...
And
a Microsoft job helps pay the bills.  

Most corporations that I am aware of are trying to become so dominant
in their
industry that they effectively present a monopoly.  Look at Symantec
buying
out Powerquest - no more competition to Ghost now!  Qualcomm is trying
to
convince the world to run all cell phones on their patented technology;
Frauenhofer owns the patent to MP3, which is as much a monopoly as M$
patents (I would love to see an IPod play ogg-vorbis songs).  See my
point ;)

So I would politely state that we generally don't make this list
available for
marketing or market research purposes.  I don't think we would want to
see a
flurry of surveys from M$, Sun, Dell, ...  

Linux history is a story of a peaceful revolution.  Let's keep it that
way. 

Ferdinand


--On Friday, December 19, 2003 06:45:05 AM -0700 Rob Nagler
<nagler at bivio.biz> wrote:

> BOF writes:
>> their monopoly. My first instinct would be to tell him to go to hell
>> in  exactly those terms, but, as tempting as that may be, what would
>> be  polite is simply to reply with a message saying that this is not
>> an  appropriate use of the list.
> 
> An alternative, and s/he's probably reading this, is to talk to the
> person.  It would be like death by a thousand cuts.
> 
> Rob
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