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Heh... ARE YOU JOKING?!?

Tell me you you didn't mean this the way it
came out, OK?

YOU said:
...but if m$ made the os modular they
would lose market share and then fade away.
what about the employees in redmond? what
about the stock holders? who will take care of
these people?

Um, those are the wrong questions.

M$ is a legally-determined monopoly. It began
as a natural monopoly but quickly mutated into
an illegally-maintained monopoly by the
early to mid-1990's. The courts at the District
and Appellate levels have both said so.

If M$ made its OSes modular, YES, it might
serve to weaken its illegally-maintained
monopoly, but "fade away?" Maybe, maybe
not! Why not let the market decide?

If modularized, M$ competes on the basis of
merit, not stranglehold, which is
what_made_the_M$_monopoly illegal. Will it
lose market share? Probably, but it is already
losing market share because it is at present a
despotic - therefore loathsome - monopolist
that people now wish to avoid (but only if they
can). In fact, modularizing may very well bring
back customers (although if the product is
inferior, well...)

what about the employees in redmond?
what about the stock holders? who will take
care of these people?

"The market, bay-bee!" I mean, the apologists
for the Beast of Redmond constantly carped
about "freedom to innovate!" and "lets keep
this a healthy and free market!" while the
computer OS market was anything but free
and M$ behaved like a serial corporate
murderer to maintain its deathgrip on that
market.

What about the companies, and employees
of the companies, and technologies snuffed
by M$?!? Who took care of them? According to
the apologists, all's fair in love and war, and
business is war!

Well, in relatively free markets, companies'
(and stockholders'!) fortunes rise and fall on
the merits and performance of the companies'
products in the marketplace. Business Eco
101, OK?

Therefore, if modularizing M$'s OSes
loosened M$'s monopoly and offered a
relatively freer market, M$ would actually have
to compete on the merits, as I said. What
a concept. That means it again becomes
subject to the wonderful market forces it has
ballyhooed for all these years as "right."

What's wrong with that?

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