On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:16:13PM -0700, Todd Walton wrote: > > Something I found interesting about the article was that it further > underscores the claim that Microsoft was unjustly persecuted by the > Justice Department. The allegation was that Microsoft was a monopoly, > and yet Linux and Google and Firefox, more than anything else right > now, are proving that there never was a monopoly. Immensely > profitable business practices, yes. Unethical business practices, I'd > say yes. But monopoly? Ha! says Google. >
Obviously you've never played Monopoly, let alone reviewed the history of monopoly in business. Monopolists rarely innovate in their market. They undercut, cheat, run at a loss, steal customers, buy out, issue FUD, and then _after_ they've killed all competition, they raise prices. Do you think what happened to Netscape couldn't happen to Google? The reason they hate open source and the GPL is that they can't undercut it and they can't coopt it. Their only remaining hope is to use patent and government regulation to destroy it. DRM, HW keys, software patents. We'll see lots more of that. When open source is illegal, only the criminals will have open source. Lan "why, yes, I'm planning to be a criminal" Barnes -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
