What the Microsoft Breakup Really Means

[Calum]

http://www.zervaas.com/humor/bofh/2000/19.html

 

quote:"Actually, while you're here, do you mind if I ask you a question?"

"By all means!"

"Well I've been reading about this break-up of Microsoft - will any of my programs be affected by it?"

"You mean will the change in the corporate structure of company affect the software made by that company and currently installed on your machine?"

"Yes."

My feelings of remorse disappear quicker than a hardware warranty after clock-chipping and I'm back to normal self.

"Well, it's hard to say. You see, what the ruling in effect means is that Microsoft has become far too powerful and has begun monopolising the market - it's the US government's form of a practical joke really."

"Huh?"

"Well they encourage people to build a big company and pay huge amounts of tax, and yet when they do so, they say it's bad and tell you that you have to break it up to be less competitive."

"But weren't they using unfair business tactics?"
"The term 'business' makes the term 'unfair' redundant in that sentence."

[psyjax]

"Well they encourage people to build a big company and pay huge amounts of tax, and yet when they do so, they say it's bad and tell you that you have to break it up to be less competitive."


Not quite true, If this were true then a real Monopoly would not be possible. In the US the idea was that the bigger the buisness the more the taxes, the richer you are the more you give back etc.

But usualy taxes are placed on the poor while breaks are given to the rich. M$ pays Jack in taxes.

[Kintaro]

Hmm interesting

[sporkme]

yep and i am sure that the pentagon is running unix

EDIT:  (that is sarcastic)

"fucking windows 98... get bill gates in here."

-=enter bill=-

you told us windows would be faster and more reliable"

"bb..bb..but it is..."

-=BANG!=-

gotta love that south park classic

[ May 07, 2002: Message edited by: sporkme ]

[Kintaro]

South park is a religion... bit like Linux.

[Calum]

[Kintaro]

Why doesnt apple release MacOS-X for PC.
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[Calum]

because most of their revenue comes from the sale of hardware. Once their superior software is ported to ix86, they will lose out on a lot of hardware sales (or so it is perceived).

I heard that there is some independent venture to port MacOSX to ix86 but i don't know much about it. I suppose Apple doesn't mind this since it expects the results to be substandard to their Mac/OSX tag team, besides, they will know that the independent porting situation will always be playing catchup to the real MacOS(X).

also, as long as MacOS is only able to run on Apple hardware (and only hardware from the last few years at that), the OS can be optimised for exactly that hardware. What with the thousands of endless differing hardware combinations available to a PC owner, the compatibility issues would be phenomenal for a start. I don't think people would be happy with buying a MacOS that claims to run on a PC, then getting it home only to find it only runs on hardware that is less than two years old... (which would be fine except for their yamaha sound card and their old external non-V90 modem that isn't supported and probably never will be, you get the idea...)

[ May 09, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[cahult]

Anyone seen the "Doombill" movie clip? It

[Calum]

no i haven't, is it available from somewhere?

http://www.stuffthis.com/Images/2000%20Archive/050100.jpg

http://www.stuffthis.com/Images/2000%20Archive/052200.jpg

are relevant to the M$ breakup, thanks for pointing me towards these, cahult!

[Kintaro]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:

also, as long as MacOS is only able to run on Apple hardware (and only hardware from the last few years at that), the OS can be optimised for exactly that hardware.

Thats what i love about mac... but they should either:
* Charge less
* Release it for PC.