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Re: Suggestion for Breaking Microsoft's Monopoly
de socrtwo 06/01/2006 12:39
Daniel Mandic wrote:
> socrtwo wrote:
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> > I still think Winodws and MS Office should be open source. They are
> > monopolies and this is illegal in the US.
>
This is a freeware group. Open source is arguably a kind of freeware.
Isn't there one poster in this group who will side with me.
Possible reasons for keeping MS Windows and Office a monopoly:
1. I own stock in Microsoft.
2. Microsoft is paying me to troll groups and refute revolutions.
3. I didn't think of this myself.
4. Making Microsoft open source would hurt my paycheck.
Good Reasons to open source it.
1. Good guys win (meek shall inherit the earth).
2. Let's see exactly where they stole code if any.
3. Programs that are on most people's machine no longer act in secret,
we can see exactly what they are doing.
4. Steal the thunder or at least one of the key motivations of virus
writers/security threat.
5. Perhaps this opens most systems vulnerable tio other attacks like
say terrorists, but they use computers too.
6. Jesus prophecied that whatever was said in secret would be shouted
on the rooftops. It's going to happen anyway, why not now?
7. Bill Gates can sleep easier. As he said recently nothing good
comes from him being the richest person in the world. Presumably
because of the exposure, but also because as the scripture says, those
who pursue wealth pierce themselves with many painful arrows. It's a
miserable experience to seek to be wealthy.