[mdlug] Soviet Microsoft

[Aaron Kulkis]

Garry Stahl wrote:
> Michael Corral wrote:
>> 2007-12-16, Monsieur Michael Rudas a ecrit:
>>   
>>> "Soviet Microsoft: How Resistance to Free Markets and Open Ideas Will
>>> Unravel the Software Superpower"
>>> <http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/12/13/soviet-microsoft-how-resistance-to-free-markets-and-open-ideas-will-the-unravel-the-software-superpower>
>>>     
>> What a crock of feces that article is.
>>
>> Most of the "free market" crowd in fact loves Microsoft.
> 
> Excelt the so called free market isn't.  Buch and cronies are
> Merchantilists.  They bear the same relation to free market capitalists
> as "soviet socialism" did to communism.
> 
> So there are no free market people in power right now. 
> 


As I recall, the judge on the last big MS lawsuit (Pennfield?)
the one who was kicked off for making factually correct
statements about Gates and other senior executives committing
perjury in his courtroom (which were viewed as "inappropriate
for a judge") was a Reagan appointee.  He's the one who ruled
that MS was absolutely without a doubt guilty (far past the
standard of "beyond reasonable doubt") -- but before the
case got to the remedy phase, he was replaced by Kotalar-Kelly,
who wimped out, and allowed MS to keep it's current configuration
which only ENCOURAGES more of the same.

(Pennfield was considering splitting up MS into two companies.
Most likely an OS company, and an Apps company, most of the
motivation for continued monopolistic behavior would have
been removed.  The Apps people would have no reason to
no port apps.  And the OS people would have nor reason to
provide preferential treatment (disclosure of otherwise
unknown system calls, etc) to the MS-Apps people.  And of
course, this would have also freed OEM's to bundle whatever
software they want with Windows, instead of what MS tells
them to offer as bundling options).