Amir Tal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 only glanced over the actual quote from Ballmer yesterday, but it looked to me that he was basically saying, "Look, the remedies that are being imposed on us are so far-reaching that if they are affirmed by court the only way to comply would be pulling Windows altogether, because there is no other way we can comply." This is on the one hand, a reductio ad absurdum argument, on the other hand, an allusion to a principle that damage caused to the accused party by remedies cannot be larger that the damage caused by their action (meaning, pushing M$ out of business altogether is too much). That was my impression, the long /. thread notwithstanding. I might be wrong. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it aint't broken it hasn't got enough features yet. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
