Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 19:34:19 -0500 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Judge's decision....(cont) Message-ID: <382E038A.2B96E56B@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Well, i just finished a casual perusal of most of the findings. Here's my $0.02 worth: There is NO WAY anyone can read the report, assuming it is all fact, and believe that M$ hasn't hurt innovation. Just hearing the story of Netscape and Sun and their concepts for a new multi-platform OS, and also Intel's ideas for multi-media, and then hearing how M$ squelched them by leverage or threats. Even the allegation that non-MS apps run slower because the API that M$ releases to developers is slower or handicapped. is appalling. I like the part where we find out that Win 98 users are all suffering a marginal performance loss so M$ can keep a foothold in the browser game. The way they deliberately tried as often as possible to make competitors products incompatible with their own where possible. I like that argument the the people chose Windows. Yeah, right. The OEMs really had no choice if they wanted ANY customer support from M$, they HAD to pre-install Windows and charge for it. Same with IE. We had an inferior product forced upon us. If we ever chose a different browser, M$ deliberately tried to make it inconvenient. Unbelievable. Sure M$ may innovate, but look at the price it's users pay. They innovate where it benefits their profits, not the consumer. That is the bottom line. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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