What shell we do with the Microsoft.....

My vote is to do nothing and leave Microsoft alone.
No one put a gun to anyone's head and said that they had to purchase a
Microsoft product.
No tobacco company got someone addicted to nicotine against their will.
With the AOL/Time Warner merger, it will make them a much larger company
than Microsoft and should provide some formidable competition.
I like free software, but more importantly, I love free enterprise.
I say, let the buying public decide, not a judge.
There were no lawsuits by Sony when the VHS format (invented by JVC) beat
out Betamax, even though Betamax was a better product.
I say, let the market decide. Let the people decide.
There are some Microsoft products that I do like.
Microsoft gave me a free copy of Windows2000 Professional (see, they are
getting into free software! :-) )
IMHO, it is the best OS that they have put out yet.
But again, let the people decide.
I DO NOT like Microsoft's businesses practices. I think Bill Gates' parents
never taught him how to "play nice."
But there are other companies that I don't like their business practices
too.
I purchased SuSE 6.3 (I will give all of the disks away free to anyone who
wants them).
For some reason, I could not get it to print.
I never had that problem with any other brand of Linux.
When I contacted customer service via e-mail concerning the issue, as a
registered SuSE users, I was informed that basic customer service did not
include the ability to make your computer able to print.
I am sorry, but I think that printing is one of the main reasons PCs took
off in the first place. I consider printing to be a "basic need" of an
operating system.
So I disagree. I think Microsoft should be scolded for predatory business
practices, and that is that. Let the buyers decided.
I guess I'm just too much a disciple of Milton Freedman economics.
Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Furmanek, Greg" <Greg.Furmanek@hit.cendant.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 3:01 PM
Subject: What shell we do with the Microsoft.....


> I have great suggestion how to equalize the market MS
> is monopolizing!!!
>
> Fine MS $15,000,000,000.00 and donate the money to
> Free Software Foundation!!!!
>
> The Wolf
>
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