On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, William Park wrote:

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:29:24AM -0500, JoeHill wrote:

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- inability to generate revenue from actual sales.

...because some company convicted of being an illegal monopoly is pulling the rug out from under you.

This is the case of loser blaming the winner for winning. Real was trying to win over Microsoft, no?

The idea that there need not be winners and looser but that the competition itself is the goal seems to elude you. If the final goal is for all major market share holding companies to win out over all their competitors then there will be 5 kolchozes producing all consumer goods you will ever need, decide what is best for you, and not care a s**t what you really want or need. This has been done before on a grand scale in countries formerly known as 'communist'. Of course you don't want that ? Also it would completely obliterate what is known today as the stock market (which mostly makes its living out of handling bets on who is going to be 1% stronger (or weaker) that someone else now or within a certain given timeframe). Peter -- 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