In Reply to: Jazz, you're losing it posted by racerguy on August 23, 2007 at 15:21:49:
Yeah, anyone who refers to Microsoft's business practices as "preditory" must be crazy. It's a sad day when customers who care about quality are ridiculed for complaining about MS business practices.
"For a long time now -- and, if Microsoft's actions to maintain its monopoly are not halted, for well into the future -- personal computer consumers are locked into a Microsoft world, one in which a single company essentially controls the configuration of desktop computing. The evidence detailed in these Proposed Findings establishes both the anticompetitive tactics Microsoft employed and the harm to competition and consumers those tactics caused. What can never be fully known, of course, are (i) the innovative products that would have come to market had developers not been deterred by Microsoft's illegal assault on potential competitors; and (ii) the benefits that consumers would have realized if Microsoft's operating systems monopoly had been eroded. Such products and consumer benefits are inevitable wherever market competition flourishes."
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Follow Ups
- Do you think the U.S. Dept of Justice lost it? - Jazz Inmate 22:25:58 08/23/07 (17)
- Grasping at straws - racerguy 06:04:51 08/24/07 (16)
- MS had predatory business practices in the past, has such practices now and will have them in the future - Jazz Inmate 10:51:24 08/24/07 (15)
- This conversation is not worth continuing (nt) - racerguy 12:03:25 08/24/07 (14)
- certainly wasn't worth your invectives, but since you hurled them, the least you could do is say why, exactly - Jazz Inmate 12:22:47 08/24/07 (13)
- Invectives? - racerguy 14:43:46 08/24/07 (12)
- RE: Invectives? - Jazz Inmate 15:36:14 08/24/07 (11)
- OK, maybe THIS one will be my final word - racerguy 16:01:48 08/24/07 (10)
- RE: OK, maybe THIS one will be my final word - Jazz Inmate 17:32:29 08/24/07 (9)
- Did you even read the NYT article? - Jack G 06:31:59 08/25/07 (0)
- But would you apply the same standards to Apple? - 4season 21:06:00 08/24/07 (1)
- Apple innovated a product to exploit a niche that wasn't being served by electronics manufacturers - Jazz Inmate 22:01:18 08/24/07 (0)
- Unbelievable - racerguy 20:27:25 08/24/07 (5)
- RE: Unbelievable - Jazz Inmate 21:06:50 08/24/07 (4)
- Jazz, you're just embarrassing yourself - racerguy 09:12:03 08/25/07 (3)
- RE: Jazz, you're just embarrassing yourself - Jazz Inmate 08:38:44 08/26/07 (2)