From: "Joe Orlando" <joe.orlando@marcusgroup.com>
To: "Joseph Orlando" <joe.orlando@marcusgroup.com>
Subject: LINUX LEADER STATEMENT ON MICROSOFT
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:57:10 -0400

STATEMENT ON U.S. DISTRICT COURT RULING AGAINST MICROSOFT REGARDING THE
SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT

By Miguel de Icaza, co-founder of Cmabridge-based Helix Code Inc., and
leader of the worldwide GNOME project for Linux


Bill Gates has claimed that the government is “trying to stop innovation,”
when in fact Microsoft itself has held the software industry back 15 years
with its own inefficiency.

The fact is the ruling that Microsoft is a monopoly surprises no one.  We’ve
known this and expected it for some time.

Microsoft has held a proprietary grip on the software industry both
economically and developmentally.  As a result every 18 months hardware
doubles in speed and drops in price while the complete opposite is true of
the software that runs on top of it.

Very simply, consumers will always lose with proprietary software.  Open
source Linux systems are here to correct that situation and provide the
stability and robustness that users have been without over the past 15
years.


For more information or to speak with Miguel please contact Joe Orlando at

							Joe.Orlando@marcusgroup.com
							201-902-9000
							201-637-7470 (Cell)

Joe Orlando
joe.orlando@marcusgroup.com

The Marcus Group
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