MS attacking government use of "open source"

[Eray Ozkural]

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) <erayo at cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
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