Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 13:25:13 +1200 From: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <m0ybbLj-0028zsC@acme.gen.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518105723.3796A-100000@altrox.atipa.com>
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Atipa wrote:
> Adding insult to this whole situation are the demands of the US
> Government. Now these are plain silly, and I applaud Bill Gates for
> telling them where to go with their suggesions:
>
> * That Microsoft disable their browser, and _all_available_means
> of accessing it
> * If MS does include a browser, they must also provide all
> competing products as well.
> * MS must modify their "Window Manager" so that OEMs and
> competitors can customize their visual.
I'd agree with you that these solutions are sub-obtimal, but only
because Justice are afraid of the solution really needed: separate
Microsoft's OS business from everything else. While Windows is head,
shoulders, and belly-button above every other mainstream OS,
Microsoft have an unfair advantage over every single other
application developer and content provider in the world.
And I have to say, I'm continually surprised at people who
can't understand why Microsoft's current dominance is a Bad Thing.
-- C.
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Craig Harding Head of Postproduction, Outpost Digital Media Ltd
"I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly
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