Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate Bully

2000-04-12 Thread Petro
>On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Petro wrote: > >> Choate wrote: > >> The only relevant question is whether they used force--in >> this case the force of government to do this. In this case the answer >> is "sometimes". > >At what point did MS threaten the force of government? They certainly >threatened

Re: Crypto-Anarchy/Anarcho-Capitalist Errors

2000-04-12 Thread Matt Elliott
>If Microsoft really wanted to screw Apple, they'd simply discontinue >Word/Office/etc. for MacOS. They did do this. Apple had to beat them over the head with the QuickTime source code theft to get them to continue making the software. In exchange Apple agreed to let them have the source code t

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RE: The Death of the Cypherpunks

2000-04-12 Thread Lucky Green
Declan wrote: [Long list of mostly correct Cypherpunks history and Cypherpunks goals elided] > Some of the cypherpunkly goals have succeeded; online privacy is > certainly > all the rage. Yet the responses seem so, well, weak, like enonymous.com's > quaint but seriously flawed rating scheme. > (ht

Re: Crypto-Anarchy/Anarcho-Capitalist Errors in

2000-04-12 Thread Petro
>Tom Vogt wrote: >> >> but all this is hypothetical, since I'm not talking about industrial >> power of 1900 or 1940, but of corporate power in 2000, and especially of >> the years yet to come. > >Ok, so give us some documentation. How many people did Bill Gates & Co kill >and what are the details