On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:10:45 -0500 William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

Cry babies... RealNetworks lost out in competition.

From all the available evidence, "Microsoft" and "competition" have never met,

Oh, William, yer so cute. though, strangely enough, MS likes to proclaim its dedication to this concept whenever someone threatens its monopoly ;-) Seriously, though, when did Real have a *chance* to compete? They don't have the opportunity to bundle their software with an OS, as MS does (despite the fact they've been told *not* to do this for several years now). IANAL, but the legal precedent is certainly there. The EU, the US DOJ, and several US states have all declared MS an illegal monopoly. Real is losing because it was impossible to compete, not because they were ineffective at doing so. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."-- John Maynard Keynes -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml