Nobody "froces" anyone to sell their company. That is a business decision,
most often for the best of the business-owner. Microsoft has the clout to
"buy" its expertise. None of these exchanges can happened with consent.
Many of would not be in the IT, MIS, PC industires if it weren't FOR
Microsoft. Through their business practices, they mass-marketed and made
computers easy to use and popular. No one can argue that. Apple did not, or
we would all be rooting for government to chew them a new a--hole.
If you hate Windoze, don't use it. But for many of us, we have to still
hybrid still because so many applications are not available in Linux, and so
many customers want Win Appz. Not to mention many of our average secretary
tyes would never be able to figure out how to use linux. I still know so
many users to who have a hard enough time learning Outlook.
Come on, in the early 80's everyone hate IBM, because they were the "Evil
Empire", now it is MS. I bet it will be SUN (maybe Cisco) next. Look how
they "protect" Java.
Come on. MS bashing is so old. Let's ignore it and get some Linux work
done.
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From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:11:44 -0400
Romanator wrote:
> I am not 100% sure but it sounds familiar. They have purchased a lot of
> the smaller companies that provide coding, installation, uninstall,
> 'dll' stuff. A fair chunk of the coding is not necessarily written
> inside the Microsoft building. They own many smaller companies that
> contribute to the general product.
> Can you imagine if you had a smaller software producing good software,
> and then you tried to
> challenge Microsoft. Not only will they buy your company through the
> courts, and, if you don't
> agree or conform with their philosophy, they will boot you out of your
> own company.
>
> --
> Roman
> Registered Linux User #179293
Exactly. One of the big points in the Justice Depts case against
them is that they have stifled inovation through such tactics. I
mean whats the point of developing a killer piece of software,
knowing that MS will just take it from you, by hook or by crook?
Anybody else on this list old enough to remember when the "suits"
didn't run things, and games/software were ported to every single
platform, just because they could/it was neat? Circa '80's with
names like Tandy, Atari, Amiga, etc, etc,... ;-)
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