[mdlug] Soviet Microsoft

[Richard Staff]

Aaron nailed it.  Monopolies are anti- free market entities.
Breaking up the Microsloth into OS and application units would have 
brought freedom to the software market.  However the Cheney 
Administration made sure that this did not happen.
Oh well.
Happy Holidays anyways (a blessed Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hanukkah),
Rick
P.S. Please forgive lateness of response, I am only checking my emails 
weekly now.
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Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Garry Stahl wrote:
>   
>> Michael Corral wrote:
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>>> 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).
>
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