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[filk] FWD: DoJ Microsoft deadline looms
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:27:03 +0000
replyThought this might be of interest.
Callie
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Subject: DEADLINE: Public Comment on MS antitrust ends THIS SATURDAY (fwd)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:53:24 -0500 (EST)
replySomewhat off-topic, but I thought people on this list might want to know.
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- --< at Rachel S. Silverman http://www.gingicat.org "Not by might, and not by power, but by spirit alone shall we live in peace." --Isaiah replyreply
- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:59:39 -0500 From: Jeff Fabijanic <jeff at research.panasonic.com> To: suspects at apocalypse.org Subject: DEADLINE: Public Comment on MS antitrust ends THIS SATURDAY
replyApologies for those of you who try to stay as far away from politics as possible, but I thought that this was of a timely enough nature to justify a heads-up.
replyApparently, Microsoft has been calling thousands+ trying to get them to write to the DoJ in favor of dropping the antitrust case against them before the end of the public comment period required by the Tunney Act. We were just called here at the lab and they asked to speak with our head of IT. The young lady who answers to that title told me that the caller was *extremely* insistent that she write on behalf of MS, and even gave her a web site to get a boilerplate letter from. She was a bit put off by the caller, and even a little concerned that it might be her "duty" to write (She's a recent Japanese immigrant and is a bit underprepared to deal with pushy American types).
I told her she did the right thing by politely refusing his request without knowing all the facts.
Then I went and did a little digging - imagine my suprise to discover (on Slashdot) an article about this very topic! Also pointing out that the deadline for the public comment period of the Tunney Act is *this* Saturday, the 27th.
If you care at all about this topic, I urge you to write to the DoJ in the next two days!
Here's the /. article as previously mentioned - the comment section contains many well written letters for your inspiration: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/23/0237225.shtml
ciao,
Jeff
Jeffrey Fabijanic
MIT Media Lab Liaison
Panasonic Information and Networking Technologies Laboratory jeff at research.panasonic.com (617) 577-1280 x115
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