On Friday 26 October 2001 07:30 am, you wrote: > on 10/26/01 12:13 AM, Franki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All I wish to say is that the reason the US Judge wanted to split M$ into > > two or > > more companies was to split the OS off from the rest of their offerings. > > So that the application M$ would be on even ground with everyone else > > writing > > software so that we continue to have lots of competing software companies > > out > > there developing software for the windows platform. > > But that basically turns it into MS providing Windows as a "charity" to the > industry so other companies can compete on it. Huh?? >Why should they do that? Why > does MS have the burden of maintaining and developing an OS, just so other > companies can come along and compete with them, sans that heavy burden? If Have you ever met anyone who had their life's work bought out for pittance or worse stolen by microsoft in their process of 'developing' the Windows OS?? Their lack of ethics is the stuff legends are made from! >MS is in the position of providing the very OS these companies need to > create their products, why shouldn't they be given some incentive?
You give them your incentive. I'd rather give mine to the open source community- a much more diverse and creative group of people who puke at the thought of toeing the 'party line'.. > > Now I don't think MS should be allowed to bolt all these apps into the OS > just so other companies don't stand a chance. But when it comes to > developing the apps, an insider's perspective on the OS should be perfectly > fine, if not used maliciously. > > I don't like MS, at all. But I also don't think MS should get shafted just > because their MS. A monopoly is not necessarily illegal. Then why do we have antitrust laws in the US? Would you have us believe that they will reign as 'benevolent dictators'? Monopolies are inherently anti-American and anti-capitalist in that they eliminate competition to produce better products... There are some > benefits a monopoly provides that are perfectly legal, and some that are > not. In the case of MS, most everyone wants to just say it's all illegal > because they hate MS. > > Matt my semi-rant for today... -- -michael-
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