When will the persecution of MS *end*?!

Austin Acton aacton-B71PBEe7S7Y at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 19 06:03:02 UTC 2003


Word up!
And no, I don't mean MS Word(tm) up.
Austin

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 23:26, 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? 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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               Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
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