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

[Jim W]

Not quite, Carl.  The judge has decreed that M$ is a monopoly.  The decision
about whether they violated any law is still pending.  I agree that the
judge's decree seems to indicate that he believes that there were laws
broken, but until he states that in public, under the U.S. constitution, M$
is still innocent.

Jim

the future is now

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Parrish <cparrish@computerprep.com>
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
<plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:13 PM
Subject: RE: What shell we do with the Microsoft.....


>
>The courts seems to disagree with you. They've already judged that M$ did
>infact break the law.
>
>Carl Parrish
>Webmaster
>ComputerPREP.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Joseph
>T. Tannenbaum
>Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 12:48 PM
>To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: RE: What shell we do with the Microsoft.....
>
>
>They didn't "break the law", they just were not nice.
>
>Joe
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Kevin
>> O'Connor
>> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:21 PM
>> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>> Subject: Re: What shell we do with the Microsoft.....
>>
>>
>> The buying public doesn't 'decide' ... They follow like lemmings.
>>
>> Microsoft has broken the law. There are penalties for that.
>>
>> Kevin O
>>
>> "Mark R. Myers" wrote:
>> >
>> > 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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>> Kevin O'Connor
>>
>> "Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright,
>> white
>> light. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God.
>> In
>> a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX
>> SYSTEM
>> FOR THE 386."
>> (Matt Welsh)
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