When will the persecution of MS *end*?!

billt-l+PWtdWbHAuXFJAUJl40Xg at public.gmane.org billt-l+PWtdWbHAuXFJAUJl40Xg at public.gmane.org
Sat Dec 20 15:31:17 UTC 2003


ATT won 28 anti-trust law suits, and lost only one.
Standard Oil won 12 but lost only one.

I think there is a pattern.

Bill
 

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? 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. :-)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: TLUG
> 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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