On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 06:22, Yan Doldonov wrote: > After all, nobody forces anyone to purchase and use MS Products. MS has been > selling imperfect products for years and people still continue to use them.
Intresting, I seem to recall a minor anti-trust case in the US that kinda decided that M$ used a monopoly position to kinda force OEMs to sell M$ Windows on thier PCs or suffer a serious price difference compared to those that do. Also, until recently, MS had pretty much crushed the opposition, meaning there was no realistic option to Windows for a general purpose GUI based OS on the cheap and cheerful Intel platform. Admittably, IBM started that monopoly, that part being overcome very quickly, but MS is the company that brought it to the current level, breaking laws and acting immorally in the process. ktabic -- www.ktabic.co.uk Many sysadmins won't give you the time of day. Thats what NTP is for. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
