Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 19:35:01 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <19980520193501.22715@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <20153.895680408@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 09:06:48AM -0700 References: <199805200711.AAA07314@rah.star-gate.com> <20153.895680408@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 09:06:48AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > So what is your suggestion on how should the DOJ treat Microsoft business > > pratice? > > I recommend that the DOJ just leave Microsoft the hell alone. > > People have spent a lot of time whining about the fact that Microsoft > owns 80% of the desktops out there and that M$ is now the Big Bad Wolf > who is crushing innovation and all these other scarey things, but they > all conveniently ignore answering the biggest question of all: > How did we get to this state in the first place? A large part of it is due to illegal licensing, and killing off products on competing platforms. Other parts of it is due to MS doing the right things (and though I think the tradeoffs suck, I agree that they've done many things right marketingwise) user-interface-wise. However, the fact that they got part of the way by doing things better than other people does NOT mean that they should be allowed to use illegal tie-ins to close those areas where people actually do things better than them. Microsoft has been doing this for a long while, and they are doing more of it lately. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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