Microsoft Lawsuit Against Brazillian Government

Friday, June 25th, 2004 at 1425

I picked up on something from an EMail newsletter I’m on and tracked back to this article at Slashdot.

The thing that boils my blood is Microsoft’s statement:

“an excess in freedom of speech and freedom of thought, by means of the dissemination of information.”

What the HELL (Sorry young readers, but I’m really mad) is that supposed to mean? The American Police State is out of control. Who are they to try and push for legal action against someone who decides that they don’t want to pay through the nose for some software?
Illegal to use it without paying, I can follow.
Illegal to annnounce you’re going to use Linux instead? Jeebers.

They are, of course, trying to dress the lawsuit up as a libel action, saying that Sergio Amadeu likened them to drug dealers and “oh mommy it hurt us”, but what I really think they’re trying to do is clamp down hard and fast before public acts of large-scale Microsoft Bashing really do start to make an impact.

Mr Sergio Amadeu was bang on the money and his decision is one I hope the rest of the developing nations will follow. I just hope he isn’t intimidated by the legal move against him, or is assasinated in a “car accident” and replaced with a Microsoft-Bought lackey.

One wonders if I’ll get a letter from Microsoft about this blog post, for an “excess of free speech” on my part. Facists.

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2 Comment for “Microsoft Lawsuit Against Brazillian Government”

dagny Said this on June 25th, 2004 at 1510
Umm… this is a statement from Microsoft, not the US Government, and it shows how much free speech there is in America that Microsoft is free to claim there’s too much, and other people are free to claim there isn’t any.
Zoomer Said this on June 28th, 2004 at 0043
wtf…
This is as bad when they make companies like dell pay to sell somthign other then windows. so by a dell with redhat on and microsoft still get the pounds.

but to think the have enough monopoly to take on Brazil is a bit too far and I want to see a counter sue after Microsoft fail badly.