Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate Bully

[Reese]

At 11:46 AM 06/04/00 +0200, Tom Vogt wrote:
>Reese wrote:
>> >get real. while there are no guns involved, and thus the word "force"
>> >might be debatable, the amount of choice available to a) end-users and
>> >b) resellers is far from what it would be in a theoretical free market.
>> >
>> 
>> Dell started shipping with Linux installed last year, other manufacturers
>> have followed suit.
>
>that's the point: last year.

No, the point is that whatever monopoly M$ might have tried to bring to
fruition, if they even did, is crumbling by simple virtue of the market
economy moving in a direction M$ can't go.

The lawsuit is less about breaking up a monopoly, more about swatting a
very successful firm that hasn't been paying protection money.

Reese