FW: Incredible

[Matthew Benjamin <MBenjamin@comshare.com>]

  > Mr. Hamilton, you obviously have as much right to lobby your
  > representative as any other citizen.  
  > 
  > Mr. Di Cosmo was primarily concerned with the ethicality of lobbying
  > the Justice Department, and he had no idea that the CPT was
  > encouraging people to do so.  In my own view, citizens have no choice
  > but to lobby Justice in this case--at any rate, to register their
  > opinions--if they have any stake whatever in the outcome of this
  > issue.  That includes the AMSP, obviously.
  > 
  > Having said this, there is little doubt whose opinions are going to be
  > heard the most, in the context of the literally BILLIONS of dollars
  > that Microsoft spends on advertising each year.  
  > 
  > If you can, forgive some of us for resenting a political economic
  > system that grants access and participation proportionally to wealth.
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > Matt Benjamin
  > 
  > 
  > ----------
  > From: 	Dave Hamilton[SMTP:DHamilton@baydweller.com]
  > Reply To: 	DHamilton@baydweller.com
  > Sent: 	Friday, November 07, 1997 12:24 PM
  > To: 	Multiple recipients of list
  > Subject: 	RE: Incredible
  > 
  > And how is this any different from the sign-on letter from Ralph
  > Nader's
  > Consumer Project on Technology? See the "pre-printed opinions" at
  > http://www.essential.org/antitrust/ms/browserletter.html.  And, since
  > I
  > participated in creating the letter from AMSP, I can tell you that it
  > did not come from Microsoft, but from a professional association of
  > technology providers that have built their businesses with Microsoft
  > products and technologies.
  > 
  > It was my impression that the "Appraising Microsoft" conference was to
  > be an open discussion with participants from both sides of the debate.
  > It seems to me that a letter writing campaign from those of us who do
  > not favor government regulation of Microsoft should be just as welcome
  > here as the letter writing campaign from those who do.
  > 
  > Dave Hamilton
  > dhamilton@baydweller.com
  > 
  > > -----Original Message-----
  > > From:	moonwolf@earthling.net [SMTP:moonwolf@earthling.net]
  > > Sent:	Friday, November 07, 1997 10:46 AM
  > > To:	Multiple recipients of list
  > > Subject:	Re: Incredible
  > > 
  > > 
  > > In the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, it is just
  > > considered bad taste to have
  > > to use "pre-printed opinions" that come with carefully detailed
  > > instructions.  However,
  > > since we know how Microsoft regards it's users, it comes as no
  > > surprise to me that Microsoft
  > > doesn't trust any of them to speak for themselves.
  > > 
  > > 
  > > 
  > 
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