Subject: Microsoft: the Noam Chomsky Interview
James Love (love@cptech.org)
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 12:01:33 -0400
Message-Id: <3555CF5D.3D8171BC@cptech.org> Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 12:01:33 -0400 From: James Love <love@cptech.org> To: Roundtable <roundtable@cni.org> Subject: Microsoft: the Noam Chomsky Interview
I just ran across this interesting bit. It is an interview with Noam
Chomsky, discussing the debate over the Microsoft monopoly. jl
----------
A CORPORATE WATCH INTERVIEW WITH NOAM CHOMSKY
Corporate Watch's Anna Couey and Joshua Karliner caught up with Noam
Chomsky by telephone at his home in the Boston area to ask him about
Microsoft and Bill Gates. The following is a transcript of our far
ranging conversation.
CW: So our first question is, how significant do you
see the recent skirmishes between the Department
of Justice and Microsoft? Do you see it as an
important turn of events?
NC: There's some significance. We shouldn't exaggerate it.
If there are three major corporations controlling what
is essentially public property and a public creation,
namely the Internet, telecommunications, and so on,
that's not a whole lot better than one corporation
controlling, but it's maybe a minor difference. The
question is to what extent parasites like Microsoft
should be parasites off the public system, or should
be granted any rights at all.
[snip]
http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/feature/microsoft/chomsky.html
-- James Love Consumer Project on Technology P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 love@cptech.org | http://www.cptech.org/ 202.387.8030, fax 202.234.5176
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a16 : Tue Mar 23 1999 - 03:33:25 EST