I think the newsforge article misses an important point. From the article:
"
I have friends who work for Microsoft, and they are perfectly nice people.
But I'm sorry, this is over the line. A company that makes this kind of
threat in response to requests that it follow the basic rules of free
enterprise and competitive capitalism
"
Microsoft *is* playing by the rules of competitive capitalism. That's how
it got to a big near-monopoly. The emergence of such monstrosities is an
inevitable consequence of a free market economy.
Thanks,
Uri
http://translation.israel.net
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Amir Tal wrote:
> Didn't know if I should laugh or cry when I saw a post at Newsforge that
> says the following :
>
> "Microsoft management is now threatening to stop shipping Windows
> completely if the next federal court decision goes against them"
>
> How real, and how logic this so called "threat" sounds ?
> I, for one. Think its ridicules, and just shows how desperate MS are
> about the blow they are about
> To suffer from the federal court.
>
> Full article at newsforge :
> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/05/0232253&mode=thread
> Little pole a am having at whatsup.co.il about this :
> http://whatsup.homelinux.com/pollBooth.php?op=results&pollID=11&mode=&or
> der=&thold=
>
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