From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 20 10:35:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA08560 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 10:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08550 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 10:35:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA26374; Wed, 20 May 1998 17:35:03 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id TAA07125; Wed, 20 May 1998 19:35:01 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980520193501.22715@follo.net> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 19:35:01 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Atipa , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... References: <199805200711.AAA07314@rah.star-gate.com> <20153.895680408@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <20153.895680408@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 09:06:48AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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