"Matt Garrish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> "Jeroen Wenting" <jwenting at hornet dot demon dot nl> wrote: >>> >>>Microsoft isn't evil, they're not a monopoly either. >>>If they were a monopoly they'd have 100% of the market and there'd be >>>no other software manufacturers at all. >> >> This is wrong. The dictionary definition of a monopoly is when a >> manufacturer has all or nearly all of a market. Microsoft DOES have >> a monopoly on PC operating systems. >> >> That, in itself, is not necessarily illegal. However, Microsoft then >> USED that monopoly power to stifle their competition, and that IS >> illegal. >> >> Part of their behavior really escape me. The whole thing about >> browser wars confuses me. Web browsers represent a zero billion >> dollar a year market. Why would you risk anything to own it? >> > > It may not be worth loads of money in-and-of itself now (don't forget > Netscape wasn't always free, though), but if you control how people > view the Internet you can make a lot of money in other ways, > especially if you build your browser into your operating system and > warp standards
Which standards? W3C doesn't make standards (they talk about working drafts and recommendations), so nothing to warp there for MS. > so that people who design sites take advantage of the > proprietary features. Yup, Netscape did the same, remember LiveScript (renamed to JavaScript for obvious reasons), and the elements they added? (Like the, horror, blink) > Eventually the hope is that your OS and browser > will become the only means of accessing the internet. And if your OS > and browser are the only way to access the Internet, who in their > right mind would use another system? It's not happening, so what are you talking about? Any developer hoping the above has no clue what he/she is developing. -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ I ploink googlegroups.com :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
