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

[jiva@devware.com]

Why don't you guys take this conversation to a Microsoft oriented
mailing list?

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:44:11PM -0700, Carl Parrish wrote:
> I believe that according to the anti-trust laws. *Being* a monopoly in an
> open market *is* against the law. (course I could be wrong. Memory of my
> history class is foggy at best)
> 
> Carl Parrish
> Webmaster
> ComputerPREP.com
> 
> 
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Jim W
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:19 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: What shell we do with the Microsoft.....
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >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
> >
> >> 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
> >> >
> >> > 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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> >> "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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