On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 08:51:11AM +0000, Andy Linton wrote:
Given the attention being given to the activities of Microsoft in the US Courts, it seems to me that even indirect support should not be given to the activities of an organisation which attempts to subvert the open nature of the Internet that many of us have striven for over the years.
This aside, to me it is a form of discrimination. I find it as rude as people in my presence talking in a language I do not understand. It would be exactly the same as producing the minutes in French and only making an English copy available to those people with access to fax machines. You had may as well encrypted it and distributed keys to a select few people. Frankly, to have this sort of activity occurring in the society New Zealand is supposed trust to provide direction for an open Internet infrastructure, bothers me Open communication is a two way street. There is no use making information available to the masses if it is in a format that they do not all have access to.
NZNOG of course has no such rules but I'd hope that they'd take a similar stance on open communication.
I don't think we have anything to worry about. I know more than a few people on the NZNOG list who would have no idea where their copy of Office '98 was =) Dean -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dean Pemberton Ph: +61-3-9656-7000 Regional Technical Specialist Asia-Pacific Fx: +61-3-9656-7003 Ascend Communications, Inc Mb: +61-419-117-321 Lvl 38, ANZ Tower, 55 Collins St Melbourne,Australia mailto:deanp(a)ascend.com.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog