There isn't a PC in even close to every home in america.
IBM had at least as much to do with the growth of the PC as microsoft.
This next point has been mentioned several times in this thread already, but you just don't seem to get it.
Just because Microsoft helped get the PC industry to where it is today, does NOT mean that they should be allowed to do whatever they want.
Lastly try to remember that almost every product that MS has ever sold was created by someone else, bought out by MS, rebranded as a Microsoft product and is then pointed to as an example of "innovation".
The few examples of products where this is not the case were STILL stolen ideas from someone else. In the end we end up with a company that succeded not because of their own technical merit but because of their business practices and market leading position (which they only had through luck in the first place) hence this trial.
However breaking them up doesn't really solve any of this....we need to force open standards.
While I agree with all that has been listed nobody has mentioned...
Kite - The Professional meets La Femme Nikita...fabulous.
Iria - Great OVA series.
Record Of Lodoss War - Nuff said.
Fushigi Yugi - Just got the first boxed set, now I gotta wait till November to see the end...nooooo!
All of these are available on DVD, and please god don't watch the dub...the american voice actors ALWAYS suck. Witness Keifer Sutherland in Armitage III.
"The majority of computer users do not have the expertise to even install linux, much less maintain it."
The majority of computer users (the mensch) can't do this to windows either. That is the problem. A computer is a tool, not a device. That's an important distinction. The mensch don't use windows to it's potential. Because they don't know how, you have to learn to use a tool.
It should not be the goal of the computer industry, especially open source, to strive to ease of use. We should strive toward ease of education.
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There isn't a PC in even close to every home in america.
IBM had at least as much to do with the growth of the PC as microsoft.
This next point has been mentioned several times in this thread already, but you just don't seem to get it.
Just because Microsoft helped get the PC industry to where it is today, does NOT mean that they should be allowed to do whatever they want.
Lastly try to remember that almost every product that MS has ever sold was created by someone else, bought out by MS, rebranded as a Microsoft product and is then pointed to as an example of "innovation".
The few examples of products where this is not the case were STILL stolen ideas from someone else. In the end we end up with a company that succeded not because of their own technical merit but because of their business practices and market leading position (which they only had through luck in the first place) hence this trial.
However breaking them up doesn't really solve any of this....we need to force open standards.
Kite - The Professional meets La Femme Nikita...fabulous.
Iria - Great OVA series.
Record Of Lodoss War - Nuff said.
Fushigi Yugi - Just got the first boxed set, now I gotta wait till November to see the end...nooooo!
All of these are available on DVD, and please god don't watch the dub...the american voice actors ALWAYS suck. Witness Keifer Sutherland in Armitage III.
I like LOTR as much as the next geek...but come on.
"The majority of computer users do not have the expertise to even install linux, much less maintain it."
The majority of computer users (the mensch) can't do this to windows either. That is the problem. A computer is a tool, not a device. That's an important distinction. The mensch don't use windows to it's potential. Because they don't know how, you have to learn to use a tool.
It should not be the goal of the computer industry, especially open source, to strive to ease of use. We should strive toward ease of education.