David Schwartz wrote:
> "Eike Preuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>>>Right, except that's utterly absurd. If every vendor takes their tiny
>>>cut of the 95%, a huge cut of the 5% is starting to look *RE
David Schwartz wrote:
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>>But if *every* vendor has to make that same choice, there is no place for
>>that other 5% to go to buy another operating system. So the other
>>operating system(s) die off. And those 5% become customers of Microsoft
>>since there's no other choice left. And *that* i
David Schwartz wrote:
> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>>3) there are plenty of other OSs that are developed or could be
>>developed but which cannot get a foothold or even manage to be put on
>>the shelves because the majority product produce
John Bokma wrote:
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> I see little difference with other big companies. You're right that there
> is no excuse for such behaviour, but if MS isn't doing it, another company
> will take their place.
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And if companies are allowed to behave this way (because of your
'nice,fatalistic' argu
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>>1. flipping to a digital id based email system so that the sender of
>>any piece of mail can be legally identified and prosecuted.
>>If every piece of anonymous email disappeared that would go a long
>>way to clearing up spam. Let those sending ransom notes, death
>>threats and hate mail use
