-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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.
Uh...Doesn't the fact that people had to give away technically superior products and services FOR FREE (Linux, Google, Firefox) in order to compete demonstrate that Microsoft was indeed a monopoly? I bet if someone could have given away gasoline for free they could have broken Standard Oil's monopoly without government intervention. I bet if someone could have given away telephones and phone service for free they could have stopped AT&T without government intervention. Does this show that they also were not monopolies? I think MS was quite justly prosecuted. What was unjust was the government giving up on the case and letting them off easy. Unjust to us, the citizens who have to put up with Microsofts business practices. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCeuWb9PIYKZYVAq0RAiCeAJ95ugRptmx2967WSd7LxDYm0NC/MgCgnZ18 9ThAGd96uU5feWzZrHKKlYM= =H1uT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
