When will the persecution of MS *end*?!

[William Park]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:26:38PM -0500, DanG wrote:
> 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?

Netscape never had intention of going retail or competing with
Microsoft.  Their goal was stock price.

> 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

Microsoft bought, because the other side was selling.

> or bundle them out or hide programming interfaces to
> competitors because they had the financial resources and monopoly to
> do so.

Windows is owned Microsoft, not Microsoft's competitors.

> 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. :-)

RealNetwork is like after-market car radio company that is suing GM
because GM has the arrogance to put radio in all GM cars, thereby
shutting out after-market radio companies.

When will these commie diarrhoea end?

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