On Thursday 23 May 2002 14:12, Bob Drzyzgula wrote: > > "Microsoft has argued that some free-licensing > regimes are antithetical to the government's > stated policy that moneymaking applications > should develop from government-funded research > and that intellectual property should be > protected." >
To employees of Microsoft including those much disdained departments, No offense to my engineer friends who work at Microsoft (microslaves) but your company sucks big time. No democratic government can have a stated policy that knowledge should be kept away from the public, *and* be used to establish the domination of a privileged group. Take some reading classes and read your constitution. First you are a citizen, then you are an employee. Your constitution states the concept of intellectual property and why it is used very clearly, which is in strong opposition to Microsoft's poor interpretation. Thanks, -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo Malfunction: http://mp3.com/ariza GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C
