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Microsoft Anti-Trust Rulings Due Tomorrow
ewhac writes "The Associated Press is reporting that Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly will deliver her opinions on the Microsoft anti-trust suit tomorrow, after close of markets. Much speculation revolves around whether she will approve or reject the settlement negotiated by the Justice Department. Should she reject it, she can only offer suggestions for improvement; she cannot impose amendments. Watch this site for further developments :-)." Reader acacia points out that the opinions should be posted at this site, if you want a quick bookmark.
The typical MS basher will go on and on about how good Linux is. Then they will say that MS is a monopoly. That would be like me saying that Intel has a monopoly while writing this on a computer with an AMD chip. How many Unix based OSes are there? How many distrobutions of Unix based OSes are there? They aren't a monopoly! There are lots of choices. A company shouldn't be penalized for being successful just because a bunch of slashdotters need someone to hate.
Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
why are you waiting for this? It is VERY likely this is going to be yet another bullshit ruling that allows them to do whatever the hell they please.
IMHO there is a simple solution to their actions. They are to release their code into public domain, they are to refund 100% of the funds that they gained from Windows to the users that actually bought it (no receipts required, just the package and the key), and they will no longer be able to profit from any of their CURRENT products.
This will never happen and anything short of this is worthless.
There is nothing to see here.
Yeah, it worked so well when they broke up ATT.
Brevity is the soul of wit
-- Polonius
Ya, and what else?
Oh, puhleeeze. Do you really believe that Linux is a threat to Windows without the mandate of a third party (which, incidentally, you would hate in any other case)? Do you? Really? If so, the only possible rationale is that you haven't used a Microsoft OS since Win95, which was, unquestionably, terrible. So was 98, but lesser so. Windows 2000 is pretty darned good, but no one expects you to speak from experience around Slashdot. Meanwhile, Linux as a collective still hasn't got a decent desktop software installation/uninstallation mechanism, a complete grasp of USB or an attractive desktop that runs comparatively well on 128MB of RAM (I had to add another 64MB during my brief stint with KDE to avoid constant paging). As cheap as RAM is, how well did you react to WindowsXP's tall requirements in that area? Is it suddenly better when it's something you support?
I'm all for options, but to sit here and watch you state outright falsehoods, such as the quote I have italicized, leaves me just stunned. In some important areas, such as web hosting, FreeBSD in particular has become the standard. In all others areas of personal computing, the best you can currently hope for is to see the dust on the horizon in front of you, left behind by Windows and the MacOS.
That, my zealoted friend, is slightly less than your lofty claim.
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Inventor of the term 'pardon my French'.
And this would be a bad thing how?
This sig no verb.