Lars D. Noodén wrote:
People buy MS products mostly because they're the only thing you *can*
buy due to a lock on the OEMs.
Probably a more cost effective step would be to first get the OEM
contracts into the daylight. MS claims that they are 'trade secrets' or
some such nonsense. Getting at those would be a significant step in
vendors (OEMs) being able to offer non-MS packages like OOo.
Footdragging is a common counter strategy, OEMs still can't remove MS
icons from the default desktop. Wasn't that required by the court in
the MS vs DOJ case that finished in the mid 1990's.
Someday we'll get a Justice Department that has the balls to prosecute
Microsoft under RICO.
--
John W. Kennedy
"Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That.
...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because
it humiliates. You may come to think murder wrong, because it is
violent, and not because it is unjust."
-- G. K. Chesterton. "The Ball and the Cross"
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