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Re: Bill Gates' real crime...
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Fri, 5 May 2000 17:49:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
> Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> >
> > It seemed to me a pretty clear-cut case of monopolistic practices. • Investors
> > big and small should have seen this coming miles away. Microsoft even got a
> > previous wake up call, dodged the bullet on penalties, and proceeded to • behave
> > as arrogantly as humanly possible. Pride goes before the fall. Idunno, I • just
> > can't see this as the Justice Department's fault - Microsoft pretty much had
> > neon signs flashing "Monpolistic tactics - Watchya gonna do about it?"
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> While MS may have had some anti-competitive practices, I haven't seen
> anything which justifies a breakup. Some thoughts of mine on some of the
> issues which have been raised:
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> - MS billing vendors for a copy of Windows for every machine sold: Do
> you know how many vendors have sold computers with Windows installed on
> them, but didn't bother to sell a copy of Windows to the customer? When
> I bought my first Windows 3.x capable PC, Windows was pre-installed. I
> happened to have a legitimate purchase because I also purchased a mouse
> which happened to come with a free copy of Windows. At least when I
> bought used laptops for myself and my mother, each one came with a
> shrink wrapped license agreement (though I am suspicious that whoever
> the laptops came from didn't keep track of their licenses, but that's
> mostly their problem).
Two wrongs make a right? And I see lots of systems at my job that have unix,
not windows.
> I do think that MS has done some bad things, but I'd like to see
> sanctions which specifically targetted those things, rather than a
> shotgun approach. Do you want the court telling you what innovations are
> appropriate to integrate into an operating system?
>
> --
> Frank Filz
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> Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
> Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
I really don't want to sit and enumerate all of Microsoft's trangressions.
It's a big, sprawling, complex issue but anyone interested can find out
about them in news articles easily enough. You don't even begin to scratch the
surface is all I'll note here.
Bruce
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