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Re: [News] Microsoft/ISO 'Insiders', Smear Campaign Against ODF Advocates

* chrisv peremptorily fired off this memo:

> Linonut wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/24/Mixup
>> 
>> <name="jim allchin" voice="gravelly">
>>    Iss juss business, son.
>>    <gunshot/>
>> </name>
>> 
> M$ is some evil bastards, ain't they?

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton

   "I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike
   other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If
   there is any presumption, it is the other way, against the holders of
   power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has
   to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to
   corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost
   always bad men."

Another instance:

   "And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few
   hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get
   control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power
   corrupts absolutely."

-- 
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound
effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can
achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
   -- Bill Gates

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