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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: FTC Finds Microsoft Monopolizing Software Industry
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.023423.7279@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 02:34:23 GMT
- References: <1h08p9INNb9t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec20.163715.28824@eng.umd.edu> <1h5n7tINN4cn@anthrax.solbourne.com>
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- In article <1h5n7tINN4cn@anthrax.solbourne.com> kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski) writes:
- >While reading article <1992Dec20.163715.28824@eng.umd.edu>, I noticed that
- >russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) said the following:
- > >Ohhh, brother. If there's anything worse than Microsoft monopolizing
- > >the software industry, it's the government regulating it. How long
- > >before computer programming is no longer an unlicensed profession?
- >
- >Don't live in New Jersey, do you? (Neither do I, but wasn't it NJ that passed
- >legislation that would require programmers to be licensed?)
-
- I think it died and didn't come up in the next (very different)
- legislature. I think that bill was New Jersey attempting to shoot
- itself in the head. (NJ's head looks much like the AT&T Death Star,
- for some reason :-) )
-
- If it did become law, well, there's another reason not to move to New
- Jersey (as if I needed one :-) )
- --
- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu
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