[Sussex] Presidential Candidates

Steve Williams sdp.williams at btinternet.com
Thu Jan 23 20:30:00 UTC 2003


Can't agree Geoff. The EU and Microsoft sounds like a marriage made in
heaven - all those bung susceptible Euro administrators. Doesn't bear
thinking about.

Steve W.

-----Original Message-----
From: sussex-admin at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:sussex-admin at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Geoff Teale
Sent: 23 January 2003 10:38
To: 'sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk'
Subject: RE: [Sussex] Presidential Candidates



Neil wrote:
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> Here's hoping the EU tell 'em where to shove it :-)

Here here!

As has been noted on the list, the EU is a mainly left-wing organisation,
and despite Microsofts recent attempts to buy off important people with
employment, they certainly are unlikely to be sold on the benefits of
running Microsoft software to the European economy.  Unlike the US
government most European countries realised that a change in domanant
platform would create jobs in a local environment, even if it does costs
jobs in Redmond.

If a harsh sentence is passed down, I wonder is the US government will try
applying pressure to help Microsoft - that would be an interesting
situation.

This is what I meant about the potential of the EU to stand against the
might of the USA.  V. encouraged.

--
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