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Activism:
Give your Attorney
General a piece of your mind, and if they voted for antitrust, give them none of
your votes.
As State-level elected officials, Attorneys General are probably more responsive
to feedback from constituents than are federal appointees (e.g., DOJ attorneys).
If your State is one of Microsoft's attackers, consider complaining to your Attorney
General. If your State is NOT one of Microsoft's attackers, consider thanking
your Attorney General for supporting our constitution and human rights.
The guilty
parties involved in attacking Microsoft under antitrust laws include: California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico,
New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin,
plus the District of Columbia.
Pertinent Web sites are:
Index
of Attorney General Web sites
http://www.naag.org/aglinks.htm
Text
of the complaint against Microsoft
http://www.naag.org/court.htm
California
Public Inquiry form
http://caag.state.ca.us/piu/mailform.htm
This last form is used to submit comments or complaints to the CA Attorney General.
(They conveniently provide a "Company Name" field for complaints against
specific companies. You can put "CA Department of Justice" in this field.)
Dana Honeycutt posted the following to the California Public Inquiry form with the
following note: "It's a little too bellicose, I think, but I was angry at the
time. (FYI, Attorney General Dan Lungren is running for the CA Governor's office.
I for one plan to vote against him.)"
Re: California Public Inquiry
The filing by this office of an anti-Microsoft suit is a disgrace, and belies any
claim of your office to represent justice. Microsoft has helped increase the productivity
of thousands of California companies. In greatly expanding the market for PCs, it
has made possible the existence of hundreds of others. Its "reward" for
this is a grossly unjust attack alleging "monopolistic practices." And
this is under a Republican Attorney General! Republicans used to stand for free markets;
I am sad to see they no longer do.
I am a software developer. The last thing I need is a set of fragmented, un-integrated
operating systems that I have to target in my development efforts. Do you have any
idea how expensive it is to develop for even one additional platform? Microsoft helps
the entire software industry by providing a stable platform, integrated with standard
services such as Web browsing, which allows us to focus our efforts on writing great
software, rather than developing for and testing on countless system configurations.
Dana Honeycutt
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