[Am-info] Global Resistance

[Steve Cohen]

I don't believe Nader has any current relationship with Consumer's Union, and I'm not sure he ever did.

> John Poltorak <jp@eyup.org> am-info@venice.essential.org Re: [Am-info] Global ResistanceDate: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:21:54 +0000
>
>On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:02:10AM -0500, madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:
>> Why don't organizations like Consumer's Union at least mention there are
>> alternatives to windoze in their magazines?  
>
>Because they don't know!
>
>People have been brainwashed into thinking that Windows is an absolute 
>requirement for using a PC. After all, you buy a brand new computer, 
>switch it on, and you see those nice fluffy clouds immediately. No one 
>asked if you wanted Windows with your PC. You didn't have to install it so 
>it must be part of your computer...
>
>The concept of the 'Microsoft Tax' is lost on most people because they 
>think Windows comes free with their computer or is somehow built in.
>
>> CU claims they want to help
>> people to "buy wisely and avoid waste". Yet CU only ever mentions windoze
>> and Apple in their computer reviews.   And they always refer to PCs as
>> "Windows machines".  As if that is the only operating system for them.
>> 
>> Maybe targeting Consumer Reports to get them to at least acknowledge and
>> perhaps review alternatives to the m$ monopoly might help start the ball
>> rolling in making people aware that there is a way off the Microsoft
>> treadmill.
>
>The problem is knowing which consumer group to pick. There seem to be so 
>many and if everyone picks a different group then you are perceived as a 
>lone troublemaker or eccentric without a legitimate complaint.
>
>Isn't Ralph Nader some big shot consumer group leader? I thought he was at 
>the forefront of anti-MS activity among conumer groups some time ago.
>
> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>>  From the OS/2 Desktop of: Mark Dodel
>> 
>>   "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself.   That in it's essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Message proposing the Monopoly Investigation, 1938 
>> 
>>   For a choice in the future JOIN VOICE NOW
>>     check out http://www.os2voice.org/index.html
>
>
>
>-- 
>John
>
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