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Microsoft's Long-Playing Business Record
khendron writes "The Globe and Mail has an article which tells it like it is. Microsoft is looking at it constant court costs and anti-trust fines as simply 'the cost of doing business,' and has no intention of changing. A telling quote 'Losing or settling case after case, Microsoft has tested the bounds of antitrust and patent infringement law, with little evidence that its power has waned or that its behaviour has been substantially changed. Rivals and many legal experts say antitrust law itself has come out the worse for the skirmishes, while Microsoft appears to have built the ongoing scrutiny, fines and remedies into a strategy showing scant sign of reform.'"
Fines are often too low all-around. Look at the rich Porsche driver. He can easily afford to pay those speeding tickets, can't he?
Now, if Microsoft could be made to pay, let's say, in free goods. Imagine if the government could force them, say, to actually GIVE AWAY an internet browser and also a media/sound file player with Windows. That would really show 'em, right?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
In other news today...
grass declared green
sky said to be "bluish"
water is often wet
sigh...
Just as irrigation is the lifeblood of the Southwest, lifeblood is the soup of cannibals. -- Jack Handy
The people at slashdot are going to be so mad about this.
"They are giving away Internet browsers and media players, dumbass."
Captain Obvious has saved the day! Thanks! None of us ever knew this.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Once you're in power, it's much easier to stay in power.
I think you've just figured out the Slashdot Karma secret. Once you get that karma bonus on all your posts, you're a GOD, I tell you, a GOD!!!
Of course, watch this one get modded down...
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
the nineteenth century phoned, and they want their spelling of "jail" back.
why don't we have a team ... telling MS what to do?
We do, they're located here, here, and here
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
> a modern OS requires an internet browser and a video player.
You bet. When I start the first pot of coffee, and grab the cream from the fridge in the morning, the first thing which comes to mind is how great it would be if only I could watch a video or surf the web on these appliances.
Ads are broken.
After all the fucking money that was wasted coming to this fucking "punishment" why don't we have a team of REAL FUCKERS telling MS what to do?
I didn't think that Real had such a package?
Can't find it on their website. Maybe it is hidden in a similar manner to the free Real Player?
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
To help put this into context, motorcyclists do this all the time, licensing rare imports (a.k.a. "grey-market bikes") and two-strokes or dirt bikes for the street.
Yes, but this is Bill Gates and Microsoft we are talking about. No matter what he does or how he does it, he is still evil and must have been smuggling the cars in for some sinister plot to take over the computer industry for good.
...we have come ta meet 'n greet ya to make sure nuthin' bad happens ta yer pretty newspaper.