[Am-info] Important -- read it and leap

[Mitch Stone]

Sorry to be wet blanket, but at worst Microsoft will pay them off, and 
that's the last we'll hear about it. With a $49 billion cushion, they 
could violate God's copyrights, settle, and have enough left over for a 
hostile take-over.

On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 09:35 AM, Gene Gaines wrote:

> Urge you to read them.
>
> 1) First read the forwarded email immediately below, talking
>    about the legal actions  brought against Microsoft by
>    InterTrust.
>
> Then read these:
>
> 2) InterTrust statement on the Microsoft issue.
>
>    http://www.intertrust.com/main/ip/litigation.html
>
> 3) Bios of the InterTrust management team.
>
>    http://www.intertrust.com/main/home/index.html
>
> These are good people, not "Ballmers".
>
> I leap for joy.  And hope.  Ya know, something I have
> thought for a long time, if honorable American technical
> workers -- scientists and engineers, even entrepreneurs
> -- cannot stop the Microsoft menace, we can't
> realistically expect government to do it for us.
>
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   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com

   You can fool too many of the people
   too much of the time.
   -- James Thurber