At 09:21 4/5/2000 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>And why all the focus on Microsoft? Cisco and Intel both have larger
>market shares of their respective (and key) markets. So?
>
>Some of the typically clueless around here have alleged that Microsoft was
>trying to defeat its competitors and that this is some kind of predicate
>for antitrust action.
>
>Smoke this: Intel ran a highly successful "Crush" program. The goal was to
>crush competitors. Sounds fair to me.
Seems to me that any company that is NOT trying to crush competitors
through producing better products at lower prices is not doing neither its
job nor what shareholders want.
Microsoft has done pernicious things, including perverting standards. But
that does not mean this ruling is to be applauded, and that's what some
ostensible cypherpunks don't seem to get.
-Declan
