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Story: Paris offered Microsoft discount

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Worse than a monopoly, Microsoft acts like a drug cartel, and unlike other "monopolies" (like AT&T, which was forced to cut up it's morp into divisions while competitors were allowed to branch into all of the telecom areas and cable unstopped), Microsoft apparently benefits from folks not wanting to lose money on their own portfolio (or something).

Why else would tehy be allowed to historicly break every rule of anti-monopoly laws in the united states, bullying small ocmpanies into selling out in the face of ruin (like mafia thugs demanding protection money), then hiking the prices (like a drug gang)...then when all are hooked, theyoffer a rebate to keep their addicted clientel?

Has everybody forgotten back when intel was forced to recall all of the chips at their own expense, whileMicrosoft fixed win 98 and resold it as "SE"?

Against my adivce, evreybody I knew lined up for blocks like they were buying tickets for a rock concert to buy the same system a second time.

Now that folks are finally learning, Gates is too big too take down, and they're stuck with the monster they helped create. And I've been asked to produce a manuscript for a friend bevcuase her old PC won't run her printer (that XP also won't run), and a CD of it is also needed.

So...redhat rescues windows by being the only systme here that can read a dinsuar of a system'sfile, reformat it into something XP can read, nad something the printer can read....and since the publihser still uses windowws, this means two comlete copies in different versions.

And Gates watns me to pay a license fee for this stupiditty?

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