Microsoft is more like a fighter who makes sure his oponents are crippled before the match. With them there is no fair competition because THEY are not fair!
They aren't big and powerfull cuz of competition, they got big on a product they stole!
They don't make a better products, they force infirior derivative crap on a basicaly captive audience.
They aren't out to earn money, these people are out to take everyones money at every turn, I think they call it extortion!
Jeez.... how can open source win competatively when some companay does shit like the old Halloween Documents?
http://www.opensource.org/halloween/This isn't "let the best man win", these are dirty tactics by a company who wants ME to support them?
Ethicaly, I could never buy a M$ product.
And for a guy that is freaked about the SSSCA you sure chose a wierd company to support.
M$ wan'ts to rule the way you experience your computer and everything you can do with it. That's the bottom line, Bill Gates said it himself. He wants a Windows PC on everyones desk.
To me that's a scary world, because the only reason Bill has that goal is that the entire population will be at his mercy when it comes to computers. He has no concept of choice, he only sees growth potential in the suckers he corals in to his evergrowing little cage.
The Anti-Trust case IS more than necissary. Right now, as sad as it is, whatever M$ says goes, and there is nothing the users can do about it. Bill' has 'em by the nuts.
M$ says, you will now give me all your personal information before you can use the OS you baught. All the user can say is "Yes master"
M$ says "I think I want to keep track of how much porn your watching and what illegal Mp3s you have" user says "I hear and obey"
So the user decides not to upgrade, tough luck, M$ wont support your oudated system and will use their levrege to make software companyes impose the new standards.
It will get worse if they get their way. Perhapse Im a little excited, or even exagerating a bit. Maybe it's more of a long term thing, but evil is like that. It's pascient and insidius and grows like cancer withought you even noticing, when you turn around it's got you, and your fuked.
[ March 05, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]
