On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:59 PM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think this was done because M$ thought it would make them more
> money, but it put all their customers in peril. The unhappiness continues.

  I am sure that you are correct.  The approach that Microsoft applied
was nothing but capitalism as usual.  The same thing took place in God
knows how many different businesses prior to the existence of
Microsoft, and continues to this day.  We all hear constant refrains
for less and less oversight of every sort when it comes to businesses
even as those same people demand that the general populous be
subjected to ever more scrutiny and policing.  This means that
corporations, with help from authorities, can continue to get away
with their shenanigans, and if the peasants eventually try to grab
their pitchforks and assault the walls of injustice, they can be
severely dealt with.  The corporate bosses will be amusedly viewing
all of this on TVs and tablet computers in their Swiss chalets while
barking orders to their security people over their satellite phones.

  Steve


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