Re: Boycott Microsoft

In article <355D6BFE.464D5B0D@cts.com>, jamess@cts.com wrote: > So what are you saying? The government should supply money for welfare > so you can sit at home and live in poverty? Or the government should > supply tax breaks to companies so they can hire more people to work. > Look at the economy, how unenpolyment is down right now, isn't that > better than having a bunch of people on welfare? > jamess We are talking about the US government. We are talking about Microsoft. Who is a prime force behind the attempt to demolish immigration quotas for the tech industry so, basically, Microsoft can _refuse_ to hire American workers and can instead import workers from other countries and not pay them any sort of decent compensation- in other words, magnify the 'tech sweatshop' situation that already _exists_ in the computer industry? MS is the _last_ entity to give any sort of break to for this reason. Smash them, sanction them, break them up. Give the tax breaks to INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS so this 'laissez-faire' business can actually inspire people to create diversity and options in the computer industry- and have the antitrust rules set up, and ENFORCED, to prevent anything from getting too calcified, stale, and 'in control' of any one entity, no matter _who_ that entity is. Sun or Apple or Netscape would be no better in MS's position, just somewhat different. Chris Johnson chrisj@airwindows.com