Lizard wrote: > > At 12:55 PM -0700 6/11/00, Tim May wrote: > >Apple would no doubt fail if IBM and Motorola stopped making PPC > >chips. This doesn't mean the government has any constitutional or > >moral authority to force IBM and Motorola to stay in this business. > > Which leads me to this question -- so why doesn't Bill just close up > shop? He's got fifty+ billion dollars -- he couldn't spend it all in > his lifetime if he tried. So why doesn't he just pull a John Galt and > say, "Fine. I hereby close down Microsoft. We're out of business. No > more monopoly. Have fun. I'm going to Disneyworld." I wish he'd do that. That would fuck the government over so badly. If you recall, some bigwig at the NSA gave testimony to the effect that "Microsoft understands the needs of national security." To me this hints at intentional back doors. Further, if MS were to attempt to go tits up, the government would step in and force them to remain in business. The judge ordered them to remain productive. -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net ------------
