[Am-info] Poetry from Peru

[John Poltorak]

Having looked again at the proposals being made in Peru, I feel a need to 
comment on them...


Just reading the Peruvian Congressman's rebuttal to Microsoft's charges of 
Anti-competivity in the proposed legislation is like poetry to my ears.


Read this and smile:-


It is necessary to stress that there is no position more
anti-competitive than that of the big software producers, which
frequently abuse their dominant position, since in innumerable cases
they propose as a solution to problems raised by users: "update your
software to the new version" (at the user's expense, naturally);
furthermore, it is common to find arbitrary cessation of technical
help for products, which, in the provider's judgment alone, are "old";
and so, to receive any kind of technical assistance, the user finds
himself forced to migrate to new versions (with non-trivial costs,
especially as changes in hardware platform are often involved). And as
the whole infrastructure is based on proprietary data formats, the
user stays "trapped" in the need to continue using products from the
same supplier, or to make the huge effort to change to another
environment (probably also proprietary).

The whole thing is here:-

http://pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/villanueva_to_ms.html

-- 
John