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Originally posted by mc0282:
i am going to cry, is my dream coming true ? is microsoft could be out of business ? if these judge fine microsoft i am going to send him lovely letter to him for his good ass work...
it's not going to happen. Last year when Ansett went bust (in Australia) everybody said "Oh no, now Qantas is a monopoly and can charge what they like as their only competition no longer exists". In response the Australian government spent a shitload of taxpayers' money on subsidising Ansett so there would be some competition in the business. is that fair? no. I was dead set against it, although i think quite a lot of Australians (a majority? who knows?) were in favour of it.
This is not the same situation however if Microsoft goes bust overnight (like if they were fined and had to file for bankruptcy as a result) everybody would be going "Oh no!" our critical systems require microsoft's support, our economy and national security is at stake" and what with all this high fear terrorism shit that the USA's government is churning out right now, those security fears will be acute, and the government would simply pour money into microsoft in the "public interest" or some such bullshit, and the public would support that.
To get rid of microsoft properly they need to be publicly shown to be incompetent and overpriced. there will be no quick death for microsoft for this very reason.
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Question thou make me wonder if these virus being poping out , couldn't microsoft had something to do with it ? they lunch virus and blame on hackers so the way make easy for them to unleashed the Trust Computing whatever they call it shit ?
possible, but highly unlikely in my opinion - with all these viruses around a lot of people are making a big noise about "windows is not secure" but most of them are not saying "palladium is the answer" - they are usually saying "solaris/BSD/linux is the answer", so microsoft would be doing themselves out of business by helping viruses to circulate (in fact by having such an insecure OS, this is exactly what they are doing, although in an indirect way). Also, think of the stink if it were to be made public that microsoft were doing this? no i think they would steer well clear of it.