[Am-info] Global Resistance

[Eric M. Hopper]

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On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 11:42:53PM +0000, John Poltorak wrote:
>=20
> I am constantly at a loss to understand why the
> Anti-Globalistation/Capitalist movement have failed to target
> Microsoft.  They are, after all the the world's supreme capitalist.
> Totally dominant.  Destroyer of competitors by fair means or foul.  A
> global monopolist whose illegal position has just been sanctioned by
> the US govt whose responsibilty you would think would be to protect us
> from the worst excesses of capitalism.  And yet Microsoft has once
> again shown that is bigger and more important than the govt.
>=20
> Why don't these protesters stop picking on Nike and Macdonalds?  You
> do get a choice with trainers and burgers, after all.  With computers,
> you pay for Microsoft whether you want it or not.  Freedom of choice
> is supposed to be the hallmark of a so-called democratic, civilised
> society, yet the US govt is perfectly happy to deny consumers that
> right.
>=20
> There must be some way to get this message across.  The American
> 'Justice' system has been abysmal failure in this regard.  Maybe on of
> these 'resistance' movements could provide a better path.

	Except, there are other companies that are a lot worse in ways
the protestors care about more.  They see Microsoft as dominating
technical things and doing damage to the technical marketplace, but they
don't care about those things.  They care about people and animals, so
they protest companies they see as sweatshop owners and environment
destroyers.

Have fun (if at all possible),
--=20
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no Go=
d.
It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."  --- Thomas Jefferson
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."  -- Mark Twain
-- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.org  http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper)=
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