I find all this hard to believe,,, that they were raided because they moved
to Linux rather than upgrade to MS. If they were raided, I would find it
easier to believe if they had unauthorized copies of MS loaded and were
moving to Linux to avoid paying for what they had been illegally using.
I would love to get some collaboration on this point rather than go off the
deep end and accuse that scoundrel Gates of anything as underhanded as this.
Illegal search and seizure as well as trespassing are all things that come
to mind that would prevent such an action if proof of a copyright violation
was not an undeniable fact.
Michael C. Rock
Systems Analyst
Registered Linux User # 287973
"The time has come the Walrus said to speak of many things,,,"
"Christians give up what they cannot keep,,to gain what they cannot lose"
-----Original Message-----
From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Smitty
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 3:08 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] ROTFL moment
On Friday 25 October 2002 01:11, you wrote:
<snip>
> Also if you are a big organization then they will make sure you follow
> their B$ rules or the will have you audited and fined.
>
> This is why Ernie Ball Guitars switched to a total Linux and Open source
> solution. They did not want to upgrade and thus what I mentioned is what
> happend to them. They were stormed by Police and Fed's and given a huge
> fine. Almost put the factory and 3000 out of jobs.
They were actually raided by police because they refused to upgrade ms?
Amazing. More folks should be aware of this. Behind bill gates luney grin
is a psycho who will smash your business if you don't dance to his tune.
Smitty
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 16:47:44 EDT