Re: Windows 2000 Banned in Germany

["John J. Urbaniak" <jjurban@ibm.net>]

Doug Masson wrote:

> 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.

 ... And demand as a condition of doing business with the gov't that all
systems be compatible, or "interfacable" with their non-Windows machines.

John