On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, [email protected] wrote: <snip long discussion on monopolies>
bu the way, companies can and do change. If you has spoken with anyone in the 70s or 80s about IBM they would have talked about them the same way we talk about Microsoft today (techies were referring to IBM as Itty Bitty Monopoly) IBM has turned around and is now one of the better companies to deal with. Microsoft could do the same thing, but so far it seems as if almost all the good things that they have been doing (opening up the specs for interoperability, browser choice, etc) have been happening only after serious anti-trust threats (and ususally large fines) have been leveled against them. the fact that IE 8 looks to be standards complient is a small ray of sunshine here, but even that is something that they went back and forth on, and only settled on being complient after people started screaming about it. David Lang _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
