Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 04:05:28 -0700 From: "Jack Velte" <jackv@earthling.net> To: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Jason" <kib@poboxes.com> Subject: you can talk the talk, can you walk the walk? Message-ID: <01bd8e16$5a0f0380$8e01aace@eliot.pacbell.net>
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>> Erm... "doing illegal things" is illegal, whether or not you're a >>monopoly... ;-) >>-- >>Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org) >>"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" >> >True enough....but what illegal act has been done? All I hear is how MS is >making too much money and has too much market share. How about something >that is against the law? is there one ld on this list? does joe siino have email? [wanted: some lawyers on this list - advertise in some lawyer forums. i'm collecting these email addresses, btw. i have lessig and a couple. 20 state's attorney's. you want to try to drill down to the people that actually read stuff instead of throwing spam away. is or is it not illegal to control 100% market share in many critical markets? all office secretaries use windows, except for archaic companies. i remember a time when you choose your operating system when you bought your computer. cpm and /quarterdeck/ or msdos and dr dos and os/2. there were arguments about which os was better. this is a pretty critical ap for now when the only choice is upgrade or not. unix flavors .3 macintosh 3 amiga .01 os/2 .01 windows31 45 windows95 51 these are my marketshare statistics. [wanted: poll what police departments use as general user terminals. (100% win95) "what OS does their word processor run on?" at least 10 people per sample is statistically significant. >I have not heard anything from the DOJ that seems to hold much water. But I >do see the need for an investigation....but I have not seen anything worth >prosecuting yet. the whole browser thing is pretty nonsense. (i prefer explorer.) oh yeah, there are five other browser companies. how come they aren't in the lawsuites or anywhere? MS can't have a monopoly on this critical segment of our economy. it's like a monopoly on steel or railroads. not good for the economy or the industry. it's not good for the economy because it retards innovation and it's not good for the industry because there Are better OS's, in fact, almost all the other ones are better. apple was better until recently, then FreeBSD is better. who thinks MS general utility products don't suck? anyone forced to use them that has [long bug lists? software downloaded recently from MS's web site? most of their cash flow goes to loyalty - high salaries and marketing of their second and third rate products. the issue isn't the browser, it's the os. -jack free windows 98 -FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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