"Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Jeroen Wenting" <jwenting at hornet dot demon dot nl> writes: >>>> Q: Microsoft's Operating System is used over 90% of PCs. If that's >>>>not monopoly, i don't know what is. >>> They got where they are by CHEATING. That is why they are evil, not >>> because they have a large market share. >> no, they got their by clever marketing and generally having a product >> that >> was easier to use for the average user than anything the competition made >> and a lot more powerful than other products created for their main target >> market. > > What you call "clever marketing" the DOJ calls "monopolistic > practices". The courts agreed with the DOJ. Having had several large > PC manufacturers refuse to sell me a system without some form of > Windows because MS made it impossible for them to compete if they > didn't agree to do so, I agree with the courts and the DOJ. > And were later forced to rescind. The judge who wrote that opinion is well known for his anti-Microsoft activism.
>> Prices would be far far higher than they are today > > I disagree. Before Gates decided to sell BASIC, software was very > cheap. It started getting cheap again in the late 80s. Now that cheap > software is threatening MS, they're doing their best to shut down all > the sources of quality cheap software, with there usual disregard for > truth, legality, ethics or the good of either the customer or their > business partners. > WordPerfect (to take an example) cost several thousand dollars. When Microsoft released Office 4 for a few hundred WP was forced to lower prices radically, and so was Lotus (to name a few). >> IBM's prediction that there would be 5 computers (not counting game >> computers like the Comodores and Spectrums) by 2000 would likely have >> come >> true. > > I see. You're a troll. > nope, I'm just sick and tired of trolls like you calling everyone who doesn't share their hatred of Microsoft a troll. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
