Wow!! Fred!! You turn up all over the place. Whenever do you get the time to practice the bugle?
The November, 2000, issue of "Wired" had a very interesting article by John Heilemann, 'The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth: The Untold Story of the Microsoft Antitrust Case' which gave a lot of background on the DOJ vs MSFT case. However, there does seem to be a decreased capacity for outrage on monopolistic practices--let alone on Operating Systems Behaving Badly. I wonder if it would be useful, given the increased interest in security, to address our complaints to our respective government departments and ministries about the security issues in XP as a platform (which have been well documented) as well as the wisdom in letting one company, with all of its flaws, control so much of the volume of electronic information (through IE, Outlook Express, MSM and so on.) Just so they take us seriously, we'd have to make it clear at the get-go that we have no objection to billionaires--in fact, we like 'em--but we have grave security concerns.
FWIW,
Jane
