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jcb (Jim Becker) writes:
>   From: chrisr@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Ringe)
>   
>   Ever hear of Hitler?  Well any company that wants to take over the entire 
>   market, leaving no competition, should be shot and pi--ed on.
>   Best Bet, buy OS/2, wait for PINK, and take IBM's upgrade path to it.  
   
>i  find  it  really  humorous  that  the  _only_  company i have heard
>desiring to have a 100% lock on all computer markets is IBM. they have
>publically said this, a few years ago.
>
>so  here  is  a comparison of MicroSoft to Hitler, when they are doing
>their best to make it easy to develop competing software products. and
>on top of that a recommendation to use the software of the one company
>that _has_ said they want to rule the world! pretty funny.

Well, thing is, even if MS hasn't announced they want a 100% lock on a
market, they are much closer to it (wrt 80x86 operating sytems) than IBM.
I'd worry about market domination based on what portion of the market a
company currently has, not how much it announces it would like to have.
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