>You clearly showed agaisnt M$. However I'm not talking about M$ monopoly issue, I'm talking about their policy of closed-software, which I see, was the main instrument that they used, much more than the monopoly.
I don't believe that to be the case. Many companies have closed source software; very few companies have monoplies. Just having closed source does not provide enough leverage to do what MS did. It required the monopoly power that only MS had. >Who knows what's hidden in the windows code? Why did Netscape never work fine with Windows, even having specs form M$? I could tell about the story of the origin of MMX instructions from Intel, other day. >> You're only a hostage if they are no other options, or if the options > >available are not on a par with nVidia. Neither is true. >Ok, if you do not consider as a "ramson" the price paid for your card I agree with you. No, I don't consider it "ransom". When you pay a ransom, you get something back which was illegally taken from you, such as paying a ransom to get back someone kidnapped. When buying a nVidia card, nothing was illegally taken from me, since being closed source is not illegal. Perhaps you meant consider it as a "closed source tax".
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