Re: Suggestion for Breaking Microsoft's Monopoly

de Al Klein 06/01/2006 03:19

On 31 May 2006 15:39:50 -0700, "socrtwo" <socrtwo@gmail.com> wrote:

>Daniel Mandic wrote:
>> socrtwo wrote:
>>
>> > 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.

Prohibiting trade secrets would destroy the economy - the only reason
needed to not side with you. If you want to live in the far distant
past invent a time machine and go back there.