MS attacking government use of "open source"
    Mark Hahn 
    hahn at physics.mcmaster.ca
       
    Fri May 24 17:43:50 PDT 2002
    
    
  
> from making any performance tests public.  Doesn't that tell you what 
> kind of company you're dealing with when you buy Microsoft products? 
> Sounds more like a closed, totalitarian, police state to me.
oh, give me a break!  the liberty-loving approach is that since it's 
their product, they're free to dictate whatever terms they like.  
it's the police state that would legislate what can and can't appear
in a license.  
<heresy>
it's not much of an exaggeration to say that the dissenting states
are in effect asking to nationalize Windows.
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