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Re: Suggestion for Breaking Microsoft's Monopoly
de Daniel Mandic 05/28/2006 03:10
Terry Russell wrote:
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> "Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic@ping.at> wrote in message
> news:447984d4$0$12930$91cee783@newsreader02.highway.telekom.at...
> > socrtwo wrote:
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> > > It would be a good thing if Windows and Office became public
> > > property.
> >
> >
> > It is.
> >
> > You just have to pay the ticket. Or do you drive with rail, sending
> > Mail, speak by telephone and so on without paying?
>
> One weeks groceries $A150.
> Ask a farmer how much they make on that $8 pack of hamburger.
> If food was free, everyone would eat government mandated
> tasteless gruel :-)
>
> For $A250 I can get a 1.8GHz P4 with XPPro...yet they sell the
> _academic_ edition retail for $A100. Someones making a profit but
> only a portion actually goes to MS.
>
> The cost isn't in the software..unless you really need to
> use a particular piece and insist on paying full retail.
>
> socrtwo is right, it would be a very good thing for me
> for about 3 minutes, then every PC would have Windows
> and Office, and any possible development would rapidly dry up.
Yeeaa..
Bill Gates isn't such a Moron.
First they flamed him and the company for integrating IE into Windows,
and now they hunt Music copier over Windows.
Every Windows User is a good User. (economically seen)
There is always someone who pays for something, like over-paranoic
people who are wanting to live in peace and attractive competition.
But as ever, there is an opposite too. Being contra-paranoid :-|
Best Regards,
Daniel Mandic