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Skriven 2007-06-10 11:09:18 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 18637 av mike (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Bush policy shift: Hands off Microsoft!!
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com>


"mike" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
news:4a3o639sivmp408oklesm8to0g9td38g45@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:54:31 +1000, John Beckett
> <johnXsecondary@tpgXcomXau> wrote:
>
>>"Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:<466b6145$1@w3.nls.net>:
>>> "The generous and noncynical view is that there has been a fundamental
>>> change in philosophy about the degree to which antitrust should be used
>>> to
>>> regulate business activity,"
>>
>>Perhaps Bush is thinking that the US might need a few giant corporations
>>left, particularly in the IP area....
>
> Or maybe he does not want to lose NSA's ability to use the Windows
> backdoor.  :)
>
>  /m

Think you'll see a full listing of DoD requirenments?

The National Security Agency (NSA) stepped in to help Microsoft develop a
configuration of (Microsoft VISTA) that would meet U.S. Department of Defense
(DoD) requirements, said NSA spokesman Ken White.

http://cryptome.org/echelon-cia2.htm
The Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2000

Why We Spy on Our Allies
By R. James Woolsey, a Washington lawyer and a former Director of Central
Intelligence.

What is the recent flap regarding Echelon and U.S. spying on European
industries all about? We'll begin with some candor from the American side. Yes,
my continental European friends, we have spied on you. And it's true that we
use computers to sort through data by using keywords. Have you stopped to ask
yourselves what we're looking for?

The European Parliament's recent report on Echelon, written by British
journalist Duncan Campbell, has sparked angry accusations from continental
Europe that U.S. intelligence is stealing advanced technology from European
companies so that we can -- get this -- give it to American companies and help
them compete. My European friends, get real. True, in a handful of areas
European technology surpasses American, but, to say this as gently as I can,
the number of such areas is very, very, very small. Most European technology
just isn't worth our stealing.

Why, then, have we spied on you? The answer is quite apparent from the Campbell
report -- in the discussion of the only two cases in which European companies
have allegedly been targets of American secret intelligence collection. Of
Thomson-CSF, the report says: "The company was alleged to have bribed members
of the Brazilian government selection panel." Of Airbus, it says that we found
that "Airbus agents were offering bribes to a Saudi official." These facts are
inevitably left out of European press reports.

That's right, my continental friends, we have spied on you because you bribe.
Your companies' products are often more costly, less technically advanced or
both, than your American competitors'. As a result you bribe a lot. So
complicit are your governments that in several European countries bribes still
are tax-deductible.

When we have caught you at it, you might be interested, we haven't said a word
to the U.S. companies in the competition. Instead we go to the government
you're bribing and tell its officials that we don't take kindly to such
corruption. They often respond by giving the most meritorious bid (sometimes
American, sometimes not) all or part of the contract. This upsets you, and
sometimes creates recriminations between your bribers and the other country's
bribees, and this occasionally becomes a public scandal. We love it.

Why do you bribe? It's not because your companies are inherently more corrupt.
Nor is it because you are inherently less talented at technology. It is because
your economic patron saint is still Jean Baptiste Colbert, whereas ours is Adam
Smith. In spite of a few recent reforms, your governments largely still
dominate your economies, so you have much greater difficulty than we in
innovating, encouraging labor mobility, reducing costs, attracting capital to
fast-moving young businesses and adapting quickly to changing economic
circumstances. You'd rather not go through the hassle of moving toward less
dirigisme. It's so much easier to keep paying bribes.

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