So you think that just because they are successful, they should be allowed to bully, bribe or fine their resellers into not allowing alternative operating systems to be sold or should be able to make interoperability with competitive software as difficult as possible (up to and including forcing *their* proprietary software down our throats in an attempt to prevent software choice?) They should be allowed to bribe, bully or fine their resellers into not allowing them to add competing software (i.e. Netscape/Mozilla, etc) to the computers they sell with the O/S that Microsoft has sold them?
Granted, they have the right to sell/not sell the O/S or other software to whomever they choose, but in *my* mind, it's "Un-American" to use those tactics to keep their dominant position in the market. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 4:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: BS: Microsoft leads browsers in malware, phishing defense On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 07:15, Ben Scott<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:54 PM, John Gwinner<[email protected]> wrote: >> Personally, I always wondered why Ford can sell cars with 'dealer >> installed' tires (known to be fatally defective at one time), but >> selling a PC with a browser bundled is somehow different. > > Because Ford does not have a monopoly on the automotive market. > > Microsoft got (and gets) in trouble for using its monopoly powers in > ways which violate anti-trust laws. Not simply for shipping their > browser with their OS, and not simply for being a monopoly, but using > their monopoly to promote their browser. > > -- Ben Beg to differ. They get in trouble because they are successful, and therefore the antitrust laws are applied to them. Antitrust laws are a crock of smelly stuff. I'm no fan of MSFT, but the antitrust laws that it, and Intel, and others, have been slammed with are unjust and unAmerican. I expect this, unfortunately, of the EU, but hope some day that the Americans will wake up and learn that freedom is their friend, not the government. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.65/2323 - Release Date: 08/24/09 06:05:00 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
