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From: William T Wilson <fluffy@snurgle.org>
To: Bill Wendling <wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu>
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Bill Wendling wrote:

> With the horrid (pro-Microsoft) Aschroft in office, who knows what MS
> can get away with. Not to mention all of the pro-business, anti-human
> cronies in Washington running the Presidency (cause \/\/ just can't do
> it).

Most of the pro-business people in the Bush administration are also
anti-regulation.  I think the net effect on free software will be a
wash.  While there wouldn't be any Microsoft antitrust case, there
probably wouldn't be any WIPO, either...

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