Re: Windows 2000 Banned in Germany

[Doug Masson <dmasson@well.com>]

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Mitch Stone wrote:

> --- From a message sent by Paul Rickard on 12/4/99 10:25 AM ---
> 
> >hopper@omnifarious.mn.org
> >
> >>	That being said, Scientologists are a scary evil cult.  We don't
> >>need to go there on this list though.  :-)
> >
> >   Anybody else see the movie Bowfinger? Exactly. Now if only the US 
> >government would find excuses to ban Windows 2000...
> 
> They've already got one: Microsoft is a monopolist in the opinion of an 
> esteemed member of the federal bench. And no, I don't expect that to 
> change anything.
> 

I think someone has already suggested this in one context or another, but
the federal government could go a long way toward dismantling the Windows
monopoly if it would simply refuse to use machines with Windows in federal
operations.