At 07:34 19-7-01 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
>Name one person who was forced to buy a Microsoft product.
All those individuals that bought a computer that came with some version of
Windows installed, whether those individuals wanted it or not.
>In other words, name one person who paid more for a Microsoft product than
>what that Microsoft product was worth to them.
Those same individuals again, or at least those among them that don't want
to use Windows but some other OS.
>You see, even Microsoft, one of the most anti-competitive corporations out
>there, even they were still forced to follow *dictates* from the public.
Someone posted that Windows XP will not support Java. Further, MS announced
some time ago that Windows XP will not support the USB-2 standard.
I don't think those decisions were dictated to them by the public. Just
like the public didn't dictate to MS that they should build crappy security
into their OS.
Jeroen
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