FW:Shuttleworth - what Microsoft is doing is "racketeering" ....

[Christopher Browne]

On 6/11/07, Byron Sonne <blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Look folks, much as I dislike MS, suggesting illegal
> > acts is on every level stupid and insane.
>
> Wah :) It's also illegal to put change in someone else's parking meter
> when their time is up. Illegal doesn't mean morally wrong.

Nobody was talking about "filling parking meters."

Under pretty much any of the historical legal codes, from Hammurabi to
the Ten Commandments to the "Code Napoleon," firebombing would be
recognized as "vigorously wrong."

I'm a fair bit surprised that some disgruntled person that has lost
their job at Microsoft due to (say) their work being outsourced to
India hasn't, "in the Land where there's no 5 day wait to buy rifles,"
taken a shot at Bill.

The only shots that *have* been taken have been with pies, which,
while formally definable as "assault," under the law, have only
temporarily injured Bill's pride.  But the discussion wasn't about
anything that harmless.
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