::shakes head:: This could have been the one. The NTSC case was nothing compared to this. M$ could have been chopped to mincemeat in one fell swoop. Why?
Monopoly + Predatory Practices = ANTI-TRUST
And it's no big secret that M$ had that dumbass double-licensing deal where PC vendors had to pay for MS-DOS, whether they loaded it or not. This drove DR-DOS (superior in many respects, to say nothing of being competition period) into the ground.
Bill knows this would have put them away for good, that's why the settlement came so quickly.
What makes me want to lurch in a bucket though is that Caldera actually buckled for a payoff. That is so weak and disgusting. Anyone can see that this wasn't about money, it was about taking out one of the two evil empires corrupting all of IT. It was a moral and ethical battle that no real human could let go, just for a personal financial kickback. (You know the dudes are Caldera are running out to buy silver PORSCHEs right now, 3 cents a share my ass)
It sickens me that anyone could sell out when so close to imminent victory over one of the greatest wrongs ever to spawn all this corruption and stagnancy of innovation and quality in our field.
I must say I am ashamed to call myself a tech this day.
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::shakes head:: This could have been the one. The NTSC case was nothing compared to this. M$ could have been chopped to mincemeat in one fell swoop. Why?
Monopoly + Predatory Practices = ANTI-TRUST
And it's no big secret that M$ had that dumbass double-licensing deal where PC vendors had to pay for MS-DOS, whether they loaded it or not. This drove DR-DOS (superior in many respects, to say nothing of being competition period) into the ground.
Bill knows this would have put them away for good, that's why the settlement came so quickly.
What makes me want to lurch in a bucket though is that Caldera actually buckled for a payoff. That is so weak and disgusting. Anyone can see that this wasn't about money, it was about taking out one of the two evil empires corrupting all of IT. It was a moral and ethical battle that no real human could let go, just for a personal financial kickback. (You know the dudes are Caldera are running out to buy silver PORSCHEs right now, 3 cents a share my ass)
It sickens me that anyone could sell out when so close to imminent victory over one of the greatest wrongs ever to spawn all this corruption and stagnancy of innovation and quality in our field.
I must say I am ashamed to call myself a tech this day.