What I don't understand is if so many people are against what Microsoft is
doing, then why don't the computer manufacturers choose another operating
system to ship with their systems? Microsoft doesn't own the computers.
They own the software.
That's like saying just because I buy gas at a certain filling station
once, they can order me to /always/ use their gas and none other. And if I
do, then I'm not allowed to buy a car from an auto dealer who puts the same
gas in that I do.
IMHO it's up to Compaq, IBM, Packard Bell, Dell, other PC manufacturers and
even Apple, to just change vendors for their operating systems and
software. I wonder why Amiga doesn't have this problem.
Jim
At 04:42 PM 7/1/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>From Edupage:
>
>
>> HATCH RENEWS CALLS FOR MICROSOFT ANTITRUST ACTION
>> Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has called for new hearings into Microsoft's
>> dealings with computer manufacturers, this time with regard to Windows NT.
>> A report by the Software Publishers Association describes how "if
allowed to
>> proceed with its tried and true market practices, Microsoft will extend its
>> current desktop monopoly to control the market for network servers -- a
>> technology which provides the foundation for the Internet and corporate
>> intranets," warned Hatch last Friday. Calling last week's court
decision to
>> allow Microsoft to bundle Windows 95 and Internet Explorer software a
>> "setback," Hatch said the problem with Microsoft is "about much more than
>> the browser. It is about whether one company will be able to exploit its
>> current monopoly in order to control access to, and commerce on, the
>> Internet; whether one company will control the increasingly networked
world
>> in which we are coming to conduct our business and lead our lives." Hatch
>> said that further hearings will be held following Congress's July recess.
>> (Computer Reseller News 30 Jun 98)
>
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