On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> > Actually, what innovate new technologies is Microsoft coming up with,
> > honestly?
>
> They came up with an operating system that would run on intel based
> hardware... that people would want to run the applications they also
> wanted to run.
THEY BOUGHT IT!
As someone said, I'm so fucking sick of hearing the "i" word [innovation]
from Microsoft. They didn't innovate *anything.*
They didn't even develop MSIE!
That was developed by a company named Black Diamond in New Hampshire.
> > Also, I suspect it's their illegal business practices that will
> > be restricted, not their ability to develop new technologies and market
> > them.
>
> what practice do you consider to be illeagle that they commited?
Restraint of trade for starters. READ the Sherman act.
> > Microsoft isn't being attacked for being successful. They are being
> > attacked for using illegal tactics to destroy their competition, like
> > writing contracts that forced hardware manufacturers to pay for Microsoft
> > licenses regardless of whether or not they put *any* MS products on the
> > computers in question, and using their monopoly power to make it impossible
> > for any company that did not agree to stay in business.
>
> Microsoft didn't "force" the vendors to agree to this.. the hardware
> venders did this so they could get cheaper pricing...
This is still restraint of trade. Again, read the prior cases on this.
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