From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 20 21:02:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09302 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 21:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vixa.voyager.net (vixa.voyager.net [198.109.136.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09205 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 21:01:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kib@poboxes.com) Received: from kib ([209.153.178.194]) by vixa.voyager.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA07011; Thu, 21 May 1998 00:00:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <009f01bd846d$89181340$023aa8c0@kib.kib.net> Reply-To: "Jason" From: "Jason" To: "Frank Pawlak" , "Jan B. Koum " Cc: Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 00:03:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >On May 20, 3:57pm, Jason wrote: >> Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... >> >On May 18, 1:45pm, Jan B. Koum wrote: >> >> Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... >> >> >> >> Stop smoking crack. This is not about Bill Gates having too much >> >> money. This is about monopoly. Go read some history with the following >> >> keywords: Standard Oil, AT&T. >> >> Monopoly is bad for economy. Monopoly does not help the economy. >> >> Monopoly should be stopped. >> >> >> >> -- Yan >> >> >> > >> >Right on bro! >> > >> >Frank >> > >> > >> What monopoly would that be? Microsoft is no more a monopoly than GM is. >> > >What hole in the ground have you had your head buried in? There is a hell of a >lot more competition in the auto industry than in the operating system >business. > >Frank In Detroit of all places :) And That's my point exactly. There is a lot of competition in the Auto industry as there is in Operating systems/browsers. Just because GM is bigger than all the Japanese companies combined doesn't mean they are a threat to competition. As a matter of fact the big three decided that since they couldn't compete effectively with the imports they bought most of them. Ever notice that some imports and domestic vehicles looking exactly the same....wonder why that is :). They either buy the company or work as partners making the car and put different names on it. Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message