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Story: Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
Posted by: Q_Sourceror (Monday 18 July 2005, 8:22 PM)
Dear Jon & All Other Readers,
A "common" Operating System just _might_ be a good thing --- provided it is an Open_Standards & Open_Source system - not one owned by a monopolist !
Anybody advocating monopolistic closed "standards" & sources systems like the one's distributed by ms to be compulsary for the entire world doesn't understand _one bit_ of IT ! Neither how the free market economy works.
Monopolies are a real _bad_ thing for comsumers as well as developers, because they destroy the free market, honest competition and free choice of products. It would boil down to "corporate dictatorship" - nobody in his right mind can possibly approve of _that_ !
In fact monopolies are contradictive to and incompatible with democracy, civilisation and innovation as such.
Anyone _not_ understandig this simple thruth should learn economy first and comment these issues later. Finally: I certainly don't live in "a dream world" - I'd rather call it a "nightmare world" due to ms & their (IT-) world-domination (as I'd call it: world damnation...).
GrtZ, Q_Sourceror.
P.S.
You're right about one thing: I've got lotsa "Geek-stuff" in my - of course *BSD/Linux - computer (as well as piling up on my desk & in my house).
Because of it my WWWeb-security has _never_ been breached (not even once) and my system is totally reliable, stable and (at least, to me) utterly usable.
It seems there're lotta folks out there scared sh*tless of tty's (commandlines) - now tell me: how can you do any system-administration, real programming or IT-development without iT ? The answer is: you cannot !
IMHO: Open_Source Rules & ms $*ck$ !
Q.
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Story: Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
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Please tell me why Microsoft should give these par... Rod S. -
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If they were so innovative, how come all... Anonymous -
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What MS is doing is a joke. They... Bryan M. Chesmer -
To Rod S,
You are criticising the only group of pe... jc
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Stalling tactics are contempt of court and should... Olav Petri
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1) Where is is written that open source IS the bes... Rod S.
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Rod S. is most probably a MCSE, who is scared... Ronald Trip
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You can own an idea. You can own the fir... Rod S.
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Agree EU should get out of the way... Jon
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In response to Rod; you seem to con... Anonymous
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You cannot own an idea, so it is wrong to talk abo... M. Holder
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It stands to reason that the EU has no clue yet as... Arthur B.
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No Jon, the game needs to be played by certain rul... Arthur B.
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Who says the cost of software is high?, gener... Jon
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@ All advocates of ms and other monopoli... Q_Sourceror
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Without a common operating system i... Jon
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Dear Jon & All Other Readers,... Q_Sourceror -
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Jon,
You really do have very l... Keith Milner
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To MS users, who do actual IT... Chin Teongli
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@ Jon & others who, how exceptional !, really have... Q_Sourceror
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