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Ken (xei@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: ckno01@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Craig Knox) wrote:


: >         I agree totally.  When these people who like to put down MS come
: >up with an OS that does better than windows then I might actually pay
: >attention to them.  Does it give them some sort of ego boost, or is it the
: >current "cool thing" to do?  How many of them have written any program
: >that is reasonably good, (I'm not talking about how good it is in their
: >own over inflated opinions either.)

: There will always be people who simply refuse to accept failure.

: They assume that if they can succeed then there is a conspiracy to
: keep them down.
History has shown us that in pure competition someone rises to the top.  In
many cases it is not the one with the best product simply the one who
manipulated the market the best.  In most/all of these cases the US
governemnt has seen fit to call on antitrust laws to break up the said
company.  Microsoft is indeed a monopoly - many of it's products show that
it is not supplying the best solutions and yet they still sell.  This scream
unfair competition just as much as AT&T used to.

(There are exceptions like natural monopies - i.e. elexctricity.)

It's time to bust up Microsoft.
If Commodore was in the same position I'd want them to be broken up to. 
It's good for the market and what's good for the market is good for us.

I'm also sure that  
Many times in history there have been conspiracys to hold other competing
companies down.  Espcially if they have an obviosuly superior product than
you.

-Nyle

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