Microsoft Must be held accountable.

[JoeHill]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:57:52 -0400
Anton Markov <anton-F0u+EriZ6ihBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> uttered:

> > > The best part about this deal is that these advantages are
> > > available to anyone.
> >
> > Riiiiiiggghht, now we're in fairy tale land with dancing candy
> > ponies and chocolatey marshmallows...LOL!
> 
> I refuse to have an educated discussion with someone who can't accept
> simple facts.

Ok. Sorry, I'll be serious. I'll grant you, it is a fact that anyone can
form a corp, but *not* anyone has the same advantages in forming that
corp. I mean, c'mon, do you really think some little startup would stand
a snowball's chance in hell against the monsters that dominate the
business landscape? What is the failure rate for new small businesses,
like 90%? It is not an even playing field out there, and won't be until
some of the power of large corporate entities is deconstructed, not
by increasing government regulation, mind you, but by *decreasing*
government protection of large corporate interests, for example where it
applies to Intellectual Property law.   

> >
> > MS has it down cold ;-)
> 
> You still haven't told me what would happen if Microsoft disappeared
> in the next year (or at least a lawsuit ordered that no more than 50%
> of all new computers must use Windows).  Isn't this your dream?

Hell ya! I'd have the greatest job in the world, running around like a
madman installing Linux on all those suddenly Windows-less machines, the
internet would function more smoothly, there would be rejoicing in the
streets, and Slashdot would disappear in a puff of irrelevancy. ;-)

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