Microsoft Must be held accountable.

[Justin Zygmont]

and it's so disappointing to see people cridit bill gates as the smartest, 
or one of the smartest people in computing, when much of microsoft's 
success was cridited to opportinity, greed, and eventually illegal 
business practices.


On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, JoeHill wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:04:04 -0400
> Anton Markov <anton-F0u+EriZ6ihBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> uttered:
> 
> > As I have mentioned in my previous e-mail in this thread, Microsoft is
> > simply following an immensely successful business strategy.
> 
> The U.S. Justice Department seems to disagree with you, and they are not
> exactly "unfriendly" to corporate monopolies. MS's "immensely successful
> business strategy" was to unfairly and illegally shut out competitors.
> They stole intellectual property. They broke the law. I don't know how
> much more simply I can put it.
> 
> > I completely agree with your accusations against their software,
> > however lawsuits and insults are not what is needed to defeat the MS
> > marketing machine.  (Fortunately) corporations can survive things like
> > lawsuits better than individuals.  I will repeat again that the best
> > way is education.  If we start forcefully changing Microsoft, not only
> > will MS's accusations of 'communism' come true, but a lot of people
> > will be very upset (face it, the best games are made for Microsoft
> > systems [windows, xbox]).
> 
> I'm can't even begin to explain how flawed that logic is...and I don't
> give a rat's ass about games.
> 
> 

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