On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Andy Sy wrote: > Mind you, I don't like MS tactics anymore than the rest
Yeah, and my first name's Elvis. ;-) > Are you now saying that a company like RedHat or Netscape can extend well > established standards and not be considered anticompetitive, but Microsoft > can't? At what market share/size does a company have to have before its > extension of standards becomes regarded as anticompetitive? Once you have a monopoly, such tactics become anti-competitve. M$ DOES have a monopoly and this has been determined by courts both in the US and the EU. Another important point to remember is HOW standards are extended. Do these extensions eventually pressure users to adopt proprietary standards? God bless! -- Please visit the Prolife Philippines website: http://www.prolife.org.ph --[Manny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philippine League for Democratic Telecommunications, Inc. "Affordable Access for All" --[Open Minds Philippines]-----------[http://openminds.linux.org.ph]-- -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
