I like Microsoft, but I do not want to become as intimate with it as the
website Mr. Dunfee mentions below eludes to.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ddunfee.." <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 11:23 AM
Subject: the new law from Microsoft


> Not only will ms control your computer usage remotely, it is getting you
> ready for a new way to buy software.  In some countries their scheme to
> "activate" software from them is used to apply a yearly subscription fee.
> That's right, you will soon never own a copy of their products, you will
> only be allowed to rent it.  MS wants to become your software utility
> company.  Increasingly they are moving their internet products to a
> subscription scheme already.  Now are you happy ms might win the current
> lawsuit for monopoly practices?  If you think ms doesn't want to get
> private information about you, see this page:
>
> http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/
>
> the windows system creates hidden folders and stores copies of all your
> cookies, web pages you have visited, and all the email you have
> recieved.  E    ven when you delete these kind of files and empty the
trash
> can, the contents of these hidden folders remain.  Why did ms want to keep
> this private information?  Until people complained some years ago, ms had
a
> system to scan the contents of your harddrive looking for their products
> and those of their competiers; when you connected with them by
> modem.  resistence is futile, ms knows what is best for you, you will be
> absorbed and be happy about it.
>
> "Nothing needs so reforming as other people's habits." -- Mark Twain
>
>
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