On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:35:47 +0000, Not Bill Gates wrote: > Heck, I dunno. Like you, I don't even really care all that much.
You don't care that innovation in desktop software has been crippled by the actions of the monopoly player Microsoft? In 1988, there were something like ten or a dozen word processors available to choose from, and they were competing on price and features like crazy. That was then, now there is just MS Office. The most innovative things Microsoft has added to Office in the last decade? Clippy the paperclip. An XML wrapper to their binary file format. And the incredible disappearing and reappearing menus. You don't care that the cost of OS and office software has risen, rather than fallen, because of the monopoly power of Microsoft? You don't care that because of Microsoft's neglect, there are millions of zombie PCs running their sub-standard OS across the world, sending hundreds of millions of spam emails? I can tell you, even if you are lucky enough to not be receiving spams, you are still paying for it in higher ISP costs, because *they* certainly are receiving those spams and trying to block them. It must be nice to be so free of cares... > Maybe they were trying to protect themselves against all the market > momentum they'd created around 0S/2. They'd been big fans of it > right up until Windows 3.0 took off. That would be a good guess, except that Microsoft's predatory and illegal behaviour began long before OS/2 was even planned. It began in the mid 1970s, with MS DOS. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
