David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com writes:
Mark, which country do you live in? We didn't elect a new governement last weeek, the cooperations did, so what if BT is a monopoly, so what if microsoft is a monopoly, they are spending lots of money and I can't afford to piss them off. No matter what under the current system we are screwed.
If they were all cooperatives, things would probably be a lot better around here. Anyway, BT is a monopoly and Microsoft wants to be one. Both should be slapped back by government at every opportunity and made to behave legally. These days, we have to look to the EU to enforce these laws, which is a great shame, while our own government cheerfully helps to launch "Office xp" and screw more money out of UK business for a US corporation.
See the stuff about the UK Government Gateway on uk.comp.os.linux for more of this sort of thing. It's probably off-topic here now.