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On 26 Feb 2007 06:29:04 GMT, Joe LaVigne 
wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:43:40 +0000, Harold Stevens wrote:
>
>> In <54f175F1vm1beU3@mid.individual.net> Joe LaVigne:
>> 
>> [Snip...]
>> 
>>> I am not sure that this would fly.  It would fly fully in the face of the
>>> previous anti-trust judgment against them.
>> 
>> However, the US DOJ hasn't been especially tough with M$ after their latest
>> delivery of a well-earned slap on the wrist. It takes a lot of cash to help
>> elected American officials make the "correct" choices.    :)
>> 
>> IMO, M$ did the Novell Bogopatent Axis Nonagression Pact to deliver threats
>> like this without skirting too close to the antitrust tarpit. It also makes
>> for great M$ propaganda about "cooperation" with FOSS developers.
>> 
>> If you want to see the M$ FUD Master pros in action recently, check it out:
>> 
>>         http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37835
>>
>
>Right.  MS will threaten, and try to coerce, but has no legal footing, and
>they know it.
>
>The justice department doesn't have to bring MS up on charges for the
>anti-trust violations.  All it will take is a single hardware vendor with
>any kind of scratch to sue MS and win (which they will, based on the
>precedent of the previous judgment), and the entire structure of the new
>licensing agreement would be thrown out the window for everyone.


Another good point. This really is a job for our politicians. This
whole DRM thing is not being driven my Microsoft; it's being driven by
the "content providers". The question to worry about is whether Linux
will be attacked for NOT having coercive DRM integrated. I'd be more
worried about that if I was a Linux guy than MS. If anything, the more
coercive MS is, the more folks will switch.
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