Terrence, Generally I don't enter into such fruitless discussions as see it akin to masturbation. :)
Lot of heat and no production. ;-) However, On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:51 AM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2008 11:21, Sachin Gopalakrishnan wrote: >> > Companies exist to provide a service to society. In the process >> > they make money. >> >> No they dont. Name one company which exist only to serve society >> and i shall show you a failed company! > > You completely misunderstand. Every company exists to provide a > service. They MAY fail because of many reasons. But they WILL fail if > they cannot provide the service that they propose in a satisfactory > way. Your argument can be used to validate the M$ success! Since M$ has not failed so far can lead to point where they can say that they are providing the products/services in satisfactorily. >> I don't see why we should bash MS just for making money. If they >> had monopolistic >> practices its because the competition wasnt good enough and allowed >> it to be a monopoly. > > Snip. > As i said you really need to get the facts from some place other than > wherever you are getting them from. Periodically we get thoroughly > misinformed members on the list. However it has been sometime since > the last one. Cant blame the poor members though, the disinformation > from M$ and their puppets is huge and the poor reader thinks it's > great marketing. If anything they are as terrible at marketing as > they are at tech. Isn't it strange that if someone don't agree with you are have views and opinions opposite ti you becomes M$ puppet? Why we never attempt to learn from our opponents? If our opponents are vastly successful does not always mean that they always employ unfair/illegal practices. They must be doing something right - like not berating and attack newbies with insults and creating an ecosystem which feed on each other, however flawed. > > Read the list for an abridged version. Or go to groklaw.net in the M$ > section. When will stop being cry baby? With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Rodney Dangerfield - "The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest." -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
