When will the persecution of MS *end*?!

[DanG]

Somehow when a company owns 98% of the desktop OS market and leverages that
to distribute "free" software as a bundle with their OSes to take out
competition, I hardly call that a level playing field. Do you remember the
browser wars with Netscape and the numerous other companies who formed
technology partnerships and got swallowed up? I think these antitrust suits
looks good on Microsoft and it's monopoly practices. What they did to all
those competitors is either buy them out or bundle them out or hide
programming interfaces to competitors because they had the financial
resources and monopoly to do so. I hope Real and the numerous states that
are still filing anti-trust suits in the US get a good whack of cash. We all
know Bill has enough for everyone, if he can give SCO cash then I say
everyone hold your hands out. :-)

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From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug at ss.org] On Behalf Of William Park
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [TLUG]: When will the persecution of MS *end*?!

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:22:23PM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
> 
> "Microsoft Corp. was hit Thursday with yet another antitrust lawsuit, 
> this one accusing the software giant of illegally monopolizing the 
> growing field of digital music and video.
> 
> RealNetworks Inc. said Microsoft illegally tied its Windows Media 
> Player software with copies of the ubiquitous Windows operating 
> system, whether Windows users want Microsoft's player or not."
> 
> Link:
> 
> http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/12/18/microsoft/index.html

Cry babies... RealNetworks lost out in competition.

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