Subject: Re: Microsoft: the Noam Chomsky Interview
Yee Wah Chin (ywchin@squadronlaw.com)
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 17:04:48 -0400
Message-Id: <c=US%a=_%p=Squadron._Elleno%l=NTS351_SQUAD01-980510210448Z-947@nts351_squad01.squadronlaw.com> From: Yee Wah Chin <ywchin@squadronlaw.com> To: 'Roundtable' <roundtable@cni.org> Subject: Re: Microsoft: the Noam Chomsky Interview Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 17:04:48 -0400
On Sun, May 10, 1998, James Love <love@cptech.org> wrote:
>
> 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
i am an m.i.t. alum, but i have not heard that noam chomsky has
particular knowledge or expertise in any area other than perhaps
linguistics... :)
ywc
Yee Wah Chin
<ywchin@squadronlaw.com>
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