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don't bother, osreinstall, DB has his own "set of laws"
which in Microsoft case, it's balck or white, yet for Google it should allways be a grey area.

He overlooks the fact that software is a grey area in itself, that laws are being made up as it goes along: A company gives an OS away for free and it's fine, yet let a TV manufacturer do the same with it's product and it's called "dumping", which is illegal.

Now, how did Red Hat know that it was OK to "dump" it's software? I mean, that's what it's doing, it's giving away a product that other companies charge for. Did they ever think that what they were doing may be looked at as illegal one day?

It's odd that DB thinks it's OK for Google can give away apps that other comapnies charge for, yet Microsoft was wrong to give away IE for free.

He doesn't understand tha laws are not allways absolutes, and that many laws are written after the fact as the needs arise, so was Microsoft doing anything ilegal at that point in time?

Should George Washington be condemed because he owned slaves, which at that time was legal? Just becuase we are smarter, and know better TODAY what a terrible thing that was, it does not justify that we should punish someone for actions in the past that were legal, and that we ourselves, if alive at that time, may not have given a second thought to.
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Stupid, very stupid  Kaiwai | 10/05/07
Whoa!  Chad_z | 10/05/07
You most certainly garner the laughs  GuidingLight | 10/05/07
RE: Could this finally be a bonafide Microsoft killer?  lostinspace | 10/05/07
oh come on.  xuniL_z | 10/05/07
Right, blame the victim. The girl that wears a min-skirt deserves to get  DonnieBoy | 10/05/07
Wrong analogy as usual.  osreinstall | 10/05/07
Like it or not, antitrust is the law. You get no free pass because another  DonnieBoy | 10/05/07
Laws can be modified.  osreinstall | 10/05/07
Oh, you get arrogant, you were bigger, and crimes are justified?  DonnieBoy | 10/05/07
Behavior counts..  rdtraversi | 10/05/07
You have the typical victim mentality.  osreinstall | 10/05/07
re: behavior.  osreinstall | 10/05/07
Guys, Netscapes desire to compete, or whatever, DOES not justify  DonnieBoy | 10/05/07
You still don't get it.  osreinstall | 10/05/07
that wasn't the only thing Donnie.  xuniL_z | 10/05/07
Still, breaking the law is NOT justified, and if you have an inept customer  DonnieBoy | 10/05/07
So then you are saying RedHat is  xuniL_z | 10/05/07
Give up...Donnie will never get it  socialism=nowhere | 10/08/07
don't bother, osreinstall, DB has his own "set of laws"  John Zern | 10/05/07
He is hopeless.  osreinstall | 10/06/07
Nice post.  xuniL_z | 10/08/07
Glad you feel that way Donnie.  xuniL_z | 10/05/07
Yes, try to change the subject. Netscapes desire to compete did NOT giveMS  DonnieBoy | 10/05/07
round and round we go.  xuniL_z | 10/05/07
Again, any competitive desires by Netscape did NOT give MS the right to  DonnieBoy | 10/05/07
which law?  xuniL_z | 10/05/07
Oh Donniboy  socialism=nowhere | 10/08/07
MS knows how to BS Execs  ITGuy04 | 10/05/07
Why don't you try  xuniL_z | 10/05/07
Very true, with a little bit of work you can save a ton of money and have a  DonnieBoy | 10/05/07
That would have been true  xuniL_z | 10/05/07
Unix can not be a monopoly since it is NOT owned by a single entity.  DonnieBoy | 10/05/07
Not the point Donnie  xuniL_z | 10/05/07
Yes, MS was in the right place at the right time, but, Linux has also been  DonnieBo