I hate to post this ... but I'd better lest my mistake be amplified
many times over. Most especially, I want to urge those who posted my
original email to their web sites to edit my original material or to
at least publish the correct address ahead of the balance of my essay.
I got the addresses / issues mixed up on my earlier "public comment"
posting. Here is some corrected information for anyone who is
thinking about speaking out in their own behalf.
I am not so gullible as to think that my piddly little voice is going
to change the stream of things, but I do have hopes that a flood of
well-reasoned commentary in opposition to these proposed agreements
could maybe stem the worst of the damage.
Bill
PS, for the record, Andrew B. of the Metro Detroit Linux Users Group
was the first to comment (politely, I might add) on my error while
Phil C. actually provided needed clarification and correct addresses.
I am indebted to both. It is a pleasure to work with you.
BC
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: Fwd: Public comment]
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:13:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Phil C <address@nonofyer.biz>
To: seul-edu@seul.org
FAX comments on the school oriented Microsoft private antitrust
settlement to Judge Motz at (410) 962-7574.
Bill's message is appropriate for the private case settlement, but
e-mail addressed to the public case settlement e-mail address.
Please note that there are two (2) main antitrust settlements,
private and public, pending against Microsoft.
1) About 100 private antitrust suits are consolidated in US Ditrict
Court before Judge Motz in Baltimore, fax comments to (410) 962-7574
heading Microsoft Private Settlement. [This is the proposed
settlement for the schools, for which Red Hat made a proposal.
Comments about money for schools should be faxed to Baltimore.
Governments, whether federal or state, are not party to the private
case settlement. See recent developments at:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100487,00.html?chkpt=z
dnnh121001
cited in [seul-edu] the microsoft appeasment on the the settlement
and
2) The public antitrust suit by the US Deparment of Justice and state
attorneys general is in the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC.
Send comments on the public settlement to microsoft.atr@usdoj.gov In
the subject line of the e-mail, type "Microsoft Settlement". (clipped)
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