From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 17 8:22:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 774BB37B7EA for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:22:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 19533 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2000 15:22:58 -0000 Received: from du25.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.25) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 17 Apr 2000 15:22:58 -0000 Message-ID: <38FB2C27.EC0595A7@mail.ptd.net> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:22:15 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: M$ anti-trust case References: <20000417160713.B27040@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org J McKitrick wrote: > > At the risk of rehashing old material, i got into a debate with my > dad over this case. He's asking me how it has hurt him to buy > software that does what he wants for as cheap as he has gotten it. He's been hurt because he could have gotten something better and cheaper if MS had not engaged in illegal anti-competitive practices. At least that's the theory. > He claims that if there were anything out there better, it could > become popular on the merits of being better. It's hard to become popular when MS makes you an offer you can't refuse. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message