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How about it?

"How about the right to have a level playing field re equal exposure to the market unethically dominated by a predatory monopolist?"

What's level, Joe? MS has been at the game for over 20 years and has spent many billions arriving at their current visibility. You want the courts to prohibit them from offering products in competition with others so that prospective buyers will have to seek out some obscure source of products rather than the well-known Microsoft. That's just plain silly and kind of a lame way to get the world to take a look at the junk being offered by the losers.

"MS SHOULDN'T control what is included on OEMs machines as they appear to "

And they do not. Any OEM can offer anything that they want to the public. Microsoft cannot stop that and cannot even deal differently with those that may want to. But the sorry fact of life for the losers is that none of the OEMs want to deal with them since they don't have anything that the public is demanding and they don't spend any effort or time or money to convince the public that they are worth having. So why should the OEM bother with these losers? The OEM isn't going to sell any more computers and will probably sell fewer, since the buyers will suspect that the OEM is trying to save money by foisting off some cheesy substitute for the real thing.

"To be generous... inaccurate. To be more accurate... a gross deception."

So your position is that the Microsoft competitors are screaming and complaining because they are losing out on the opportunity to give their stuff away? Right. Who are you trying to kid?

Microsoft has risked a lot in building a one-stop product that has widespread appeal to hundreds of millions of consumers world-wide. Let the others do the same rather than trying to get rich overnight.

Posted by: Bill Weisgerber   Posted on: 11/12/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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