"AES" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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In article <[email protected]>,
"amicus_curious" <[email protected]> wrote:
There are several things wrong with your notion, I think. The first
being
that Microsoft is somehow not "allowing" other companies to be "less
timid"
about possible Linux offerings. It is a myth widely held amongst the
Linux
fans, I know, but there is absolutely nothing that Microsoft is doing to
overtly prevent such a thing. Indeed, there is a direct agreement with
the
US DOJ that nothing in that regard shall be done as part of the overall
settlement of the USA vs Microsoft case in the late 1990s. An oversight
committee is in place to make sure. Do you think they are asleep at the
switch? You probably do, but you are wrong.
Might be prepared to believe these assertions, despite deeply
ingrained skepticism re anything to do with Microsoft, if it
weren't for the idiocy of this following sentence:
How does the one have anything to do with the other?
Nor is the economy helped by lowering the cost of goods sold in commerce.
If Microsoft is forced to lower its (monopolistically enhanced)
prices, and as a result many of their customers have some of
their money left to spend on other goods and services, you're
saying that that _hurts_ the economy?!?!?
You assume that the price points for Windows are established capriciously
and arbitrarily. The ignorance of juries and jurists aside, that is not
true. Prices are set based on what the product maker thinks is an optimum
value proposition, i.e. how to obtain the optimum volume versus unit profit
point. This is based mostly on what the expected perception of the buyer is
in terms of benefits to the buyer vs costs of acquisition. Arbitrary
reduction in prices for Windows might not necessarily result in lower prices
for a Dell machine or an HP unless the OEM gives up his own price point
strategy. If he does, he simply lowers the amount of money realized
overall, since the original price was optimal. That reduces the cash flow
and hurts the economy overall.
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