Well you may not care that Microsoft is a monopoly, but I am sure a lot of
businesses care now that they are locked into enterprise license agreements
with Microsoft. Believe me Microsoft is still is a monopoly despite the fact
that it is operating under a consent agreement. The big difference today is
that Microsoft has so much revenue that it can simply acquire anyone who gets
in their way. Microsoft's core protocols and api's like AD, dotnet, ActiveX
have but one purpose and that is to extend and embrace and lock the customer
into the Windows environment. The end result of is that Microsoft is able to
raise prices when it wants. Just look at all the subcription schemes for Xbox
live or Windows live.
Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of
Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 10:57:21PM -0800:
> Todd Walton wrote:
> > I wish people would use a more accurate word than "monopoly".
> > Microsoft is not a monopoly.
>
> How isn't it a monopoly? In law monopoly does not mean having literally
> zero competition. It means effectively having zero competition.
Of all the charges laid against microsoft, this is the one ("it's a
monopoly!") that I don't care about anymore.
-Stewaart "The government should stop buying all COTS" Stremler
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