"The important issue here is, does Microsoft have a right to compete and keep competing?" says Robert Tracinski, the editor of a magazine called the Intellectual Activist and the organizer of the the protest. Yes, the CMDM admits to having recently received some money from Microsoft, but Tracinski points out that he and his friends have been hardcore laissez-faire forever.
U.S. Out of Microsoft!
WASHINGTON: It may not be a Million Geek March, but it's shaping up to be at least a
dozen-geek protest. This morning, activists from the Committee for the
Moral Defense of Microsoft will
brave Washington's rush hour, not to mention the nasty glares of enemy
lobbyists, to march in front of the federal appeals court and demand an end
to the "persecution" of Microsoft. The protestors are free-market,
libertarian and objectivist crusaders who want to eliminate antitrust
laws, and they've actually garnered more than 4,000 signatures with an online
petition supporting Bill Gates's right to hawk Windows without government
regulation.