DELL Petition the USA Government to Seize Windows XP Pro under Eminent Domain - and provide it as a free download
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points posted to Dell by reg
06/25/07 **NOT LIKELY**
Eminent Domain - the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation.
All abandoned software - Like Windows 95, Windows 98, and Soon Windows XP - should default back to the government and be reverted as a public property.
Since the manufacturer has refused to accept the responsibility of maintaining it's own creation - then under Eminent Domain, previous unsupported copies of windows become public property, for the good and benefit of all of society.
Eminent Domain is used to take land, buildings, streets, farms, etc. - in order to build bridges, roads, pipelines, and train tracks. The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision rendered the Government as the Supreme Power over all of property,
and in fact can take your private home from you, in fact whole city blocks of private homes, and give them over to Walmart to build a super shopping center. Because Walmart will do more business than a collection of private homes, so Walmart has more right to take what you have, than your right to keep your own home.
The same rules apply to software - ok microsoft, millions of people depend on your old programs, but you cut them off from support, expecting them to spend billions of dollars on upgrades, just so they can continue doing what they are already doing.
Fine, under Eminent Domain, the government takes the old copies of windows, and gives them freely to all the USA citizens.
Set up some server to provide free download Install CDs.
It is time the Government stop being pushed around by one little corporation, and if Microsoft gives them trouble,
then the Federal Government can take the Microsoft Headquarters, and use it for the next illegal immigrant tracking and processing center.
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