Comments on: United States of Microsoft? http://techrights.org/2010/06/16/coup-of-us-politics/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 03 Jan 2017 04:31:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2010/06/16/coup-of-us-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-91602 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:33:24 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=33558#comment-91602 Would China or Israel let the US drop Microsoft from either government use or industry?

What would Jerry Pournelle do if it means giving up free copies of Vista 7 in exchange for saving the country and the economy? Can someone send free copies of Fedora and OpenOffice.org on some fat hardware?

The voting fraud problems have not been solved yet, we’re just between major elections. The machines still run M$ products on three layers. That leaves M$ with nearly full oversight of and control over the electoral process.

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