at the temporal coordinates: 12/19/01 11:38 PM, the entity known as RedGhost
at dredghost_at_earthlink.net conveyed the following:
>
> OK, just a little rant about the decline of America...
>
> I found that Microsoft has bought itself space in our Federal Facilites to
> advertise its newest attempt at an OS. I was at the Post Office trying to
> mail packages and there on the counters and on the wall was advertising and
> free Demo CDs for XP. I am not sure about you, but I was appalled and
> disgusted that convicted Criminal Enterprises were able to BUY into the
> Government, in such a manner as to make it appear that the US Goverment
> endorses the actions they just convicted microsoft of, and is willing to
> further their criminal activities.
>
This is NOT (by far) the worst. All those years that Justice was
prosecuting M$, Defense and other Federal and state government agencies were
MANDATING the use of M$ (Windows and Office) by not only by gov't.
employees, but also contractors, all under the guise of "streamlining"
information processing. Even though there are clear laws against the Gov't.
picking winners and losers without full and open competition. The problem
is that government at every level would have to prosecute itself, which
ain't gonna happen.
I'd detail the results that I've personally seen from this "streamlining",
but we're a mixed Mac & Win group and I don't want to post flame-bait.
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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