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Re: Suggestion for Breaking Microsoft's Monopoly
de Terry Russell 05/28/2006 03:46
"socrtwo" <socrtwo@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1148770013.327740.197740@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> What does everybody think about breaking Microsoft's monopoly by the
> government requiring Microsoft to make Windows and MS Office open
> source? Or maybe even all it's programs open source?
Wouldn't matter, lawyers would still tie it up with proprietary formats so
you need the appropriately licensed software to read what people send you.
> This would force them to be come a service company and stop raking in
> the oppressive amounts of money.
Actually XP is pretty good value, provided you can get it at other than the
first release retail price. The main reason people who pay use windows is
so that when they get a phonecall from a friend/relative/other user
saying their software is broken the local guru doesn't have to try and
remember or deduce which of the 427 different OS/editor combinations
the user has, they can narrow it down to about 16.
The only thing is that after having thousands of people working
for a couple of decades
and billions and billions and billions and billions
and billions and billions and billions and billions
and billions and billions and billions and billions
and billions and billions and billions and billions
...a lot of lines
and billions and billions and billions and billions
and billions and billions and billions and billions
of dollars , Windows is pretty much in a position to 'be all it can be'
This is it, this is as good as it gets.