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To: SunSpot who wrote (42643)	4/20/2000 2:49:00 PM
From: carl a. mehr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Sunspot, You talk about free software... Do you have free labor in Denmark? Linux techies don't work for free! humble carl

To: SunSpot who wrote (42643)	4/20/2000 4:22:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

SS: great idea the EU confiscates the intellectual property of American citizens- Thanks but no thanks. Keep your socialism in your backward Euro countries. JFD

To: SunSpot who wrote (42643)	4/20/2000 4:26:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

European Commission (a kind of European Government) has completed a set of recommendations on how Europe can support the deployment of free software in order to prevent monopolies to be formed in the software business. IBM and other big companies have expressed their support to these recommendations. Some of the recommendations are: Very interesting. I wonder how long before the first complaint is filed by for-profit US software companies about foreign government-subsidized competition. Government sponsership and taxpayer dollars would make open source software subject to all sorts of free trade treaty restrictions. What a great idea to kill it off!