On 06-May-98 Zoki wrote:
> I heard a lot of complaints about M'soft not being the issue of this
> list, but I
> think the next link should be checked anyway because it affects
> indirectly any
> computer user and especially those trying to get some work done instead
> of
> trying to make it run. Personally, it fills me with rage to see such
> abuse of
> common decency and just enforces my believes that Microsoft and
> everything it
> represents is becomming a danger to anybody using a computer. Am I over
> reacting?
>
> http://www.moral-defense.org
>
> The organisation presents itself as independent but the initiator
> admitted
> having received financial support from Microsoft.
I view all of these things (People for Science in the Public Interest,
Common Cause, NARAL, Christian Coalition, many, many more) as a group of
people working to enrich themselves by trying to get others to give to
their 'cause' to 'fix' some injustice or another. Most of anything donated
to them will go to pay salaries and buy new cars and houses. Historically,
$0.17 manages to make it to the 'moral purpose' which they espouse.
Sure, M$ may have given them some money. They can write it off. If they
really want support, they'll ask the big corporations to help the fight on
the basis that they'll be next once M$ is taken down (ala the cigarette
companies). That's where their real muscle would have to come from.
If I supported M$ (which I don't), I still wouldn't give these clowns a
dime. M$ is capable of taking care of themselves (i.e. buying off the right
politicians). These guys should be told to get a job.
--
Never give a sucker and even break. -- W.C.Fields
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