🚀 go-pugleaf

John Doe wrote:
> David Maynard <nospam@private.net> wrote:
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>>kony wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 03:20:29 -0500, David Maynard
>>><nospam@private.net> wrote:
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>>>>kony wrote:
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>>>>>On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:34:59 -0500, David Maynard
>>>>><nospam@private.net> wrote:
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>>>>>>>so are any concerns that conflict
>>>>>>>with MS's wallet.  After all, we're only paying customers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Why is it that people who want things for 'free' get incensed 
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> when the 
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>>>>>>other party is concerned with their wallet too?
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>>>>>Did you overlook those last two words I wrote?
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>>>>No. You didn't 'pay' for what isn't offered.
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>>>>But it is interesting that you kept claiming 'support' was 
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> 'free' while 
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>>>>simultaneously accusing them of dropping it to save money.
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>>>No,
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>>Yes. You said "[trivial] are any concerns that conflict with MS's 
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> wallet," 
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>>which is a clear 'accusation' that they were motivated by cost 
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> cutting even 
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>>though you simultaneously claimed it costs nothing.
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>>>you were the one arguing about it costing them money,
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>>Yes, I was and am. Because it does.
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>>
>>>so
>>>within that context it's still a poor excuse because they'd
>>>have to actually add features rather than subtract them if
>>>they had a competitive market.
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>>Or increase the price to cover the expense to 'support' a 
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> meaningless 
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>>protocol or sacrifice some other feature in exchange.
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>>Not to mention that in a 'competitive market' there's no advantage 
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> in 
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>>'supporting' inferiority.
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> 
> Are you talking about Windows?

I'm talking about Kony's assertion of what would happen in a "competitive 
market."

> As decided by our courts, Microsoft 
> in fact has monopoly power over the personal computer operating 
> system market.

Which is irrelevant to Kony's posit about how companies behave in a 
"competitive market."


>>You're letting emotion obscure reasoning.
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> Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.

Typical knee jerk illogic.