I found this ....er, entertaining. http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/columnists/thespike/vegter090625.asp?A=BSR&S=BestRead
"Linux vendors are guilty of bundling a lot of free applications. Including sophisticated applications like OpenOffice and the Gimp at no extra charge is clearly anti-competitive behaviour, as established by the Microsoft precedent over Internet Explorer," Kroes says. "As if to thumb their noses at EU regulators, they even give away the operating system itself. How can real software companies be expected to compete on an equal footing in Europe?" "By giving people free software, open source vendors are violating their right to choose more expensive software made by European companies," says Roche. "Paid-for software is clearly superior, as any student of economics will tell you. So depriving users of the opportunity to pay amounts to exploitative business practice." -- Hari On 7/1/09 9:18 AM, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:- > > > http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2316&blogid=14 > <http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2316&blogid=14> _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
