Tom, I didn't think about the Motion Picture industry. There are great strides in Linux apps and the OS for 3D animation. ILM is a driving force in that venue. A lot of power there. I would think that IBM would also be an able adversary, not to mention SUN and RedHat. At least it's not totally hopeless. -Jim -----Original Message----- From: juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Pittman Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:48 PM To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act of 2002 On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:21:43 -0900 "Charles R. Hakari" <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Thursday 21 March 2002 06:22 pm, you wrote: > <b><rant></b> > Oh what the hell, we can live with only one OS, after all, MS is not a > monopoly right! %^$*&^%%$&^%&^%$*^%%^$*% > I guess that SOB has been playing Golf with Mr. Gates down in Redmond!! > Why don't we, as Alaska Linux users, get all the other LUGS together and> write him a letter? Anybody want to? > <b></rant></b> > I sent a nastygram to Sen. Steven's Washington office when I first heard of this legislation...got a canned answer back. I really don't think that the honorable Mr. Steven's could talk intellegently about the bill. He just got talked into co-sponsoring for a sizable sum of money I'm sure. Chuck Either that or it's trade-off for some other bill he's pushing. In either case, he need s to know this is REALLY bad legislation. Maybe snail-mail will get noticed?? I dunno, he seems to have the bit inhis teeth. Somehow we need to get him (or his staff) to understand that this proposed legislation is not only wrong but stupid! What's the point in crippling the widely used hardware and software for the sake for a narrow special interest? Is this Disney's roundabout way of shutting down production of such things as Lord of the Rings, which depend in large part on open software ?? I need to give this more thought before I can come up with ways to exert some influence here... Tom ------------------------------------ This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header. ------------------------------------ This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header.