Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:47, Bohdan S wrote:
I dont like how all these Linux users bag Windows SOOOO much.....
Microsoft is convicted in US Federal Court of using unlawful pressure
(economic extortion) to control the market. It's a crime, and they knew it
was before they did it. If they were honest people I'd give them equal
standing, but I don't like thieves:
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
...and in the EU and S Korea, and probably in Japan soon...
If Microsoft goes out of business, the smart people that work there would not
evaporate - they would go and work for someone else and we'd have more
diversity and opportunity in the market.
If it
wasent for windows how many of us would own a computer right now?
Personal computers happened because the people wanted them. There is so much
money in this market there is zero chance it wouldn't have been fulfilled.
There are several lines of personal computer that were sold before Microsoft
got anywhere near the business, and Microsoft didn't make the people who
became it's employees smart - they just bribed them to work for Microsoft.
me too - CP/M anyone...
Those smart people would have done it anyway - without the lies and crimes.
Thievery is thievery, and this isn't opinion - it's a conviction in a lawful
public court.
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