On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:26:38PM -0500, DanG wrote:
Somehow when a company owns 98% of the desktop OS market and leverages that to distribute "free" software as a bundle with their OSes to take out competition, I hardly call that a level playing field. Do you remember the browser wars with Netscape and the numerous other companies who formed technology partnerships and got swallowed up?
Netscape never had intention of going retail or competing with Microsoft. Their goal was stock price.
I think these antitrust suits looks good on Microsoft and it's monopoly practices. What they did to all those competitors is either buy them out
Microsoft bought, because the other side was selling.
or bundle them out or hide programming interfaces to competitors because they had the financial resources and monopoly to do so.
Windows is owned Microsoft, not Microsoft's competitors.
I hope Real and the numerous states that are still filing anti-trust suits in the US get a good whack of cash. We all know Bill has enough for everyone, if he can give SCO cash then I say everyone hold your hands out. :-)
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