What's wrong with monopolies? Look at Air Canada, the canadian government helped the competition and stopped air Canada from lowering there prices. Result, the competition went bankrupt and Air Canada have a $4 billion in debts.
On the other hand, the cable company have a monopoly and my broadband internet access costs me $20/month.
"My point is that MS can only dream of comming up with an idea as useful and reliable as a cheap mobile phone. Actually, I don't think they can even dream of it as it would require putting a product out that works which gets in the way of the cashflow from mugs like you. "
And of course if they did it you would be the first to say that they're abusing of there monopoly.
I believe that MS chose to settle to but some states aren't accepting the settlement.
I don't see how Intel or Microsoft stifle innovation.
"However, Intel at least sees themselves as part of our society -- Microsoft sees themsevles as above our society"
Can't really comment on that. I believe that there's way too many laws and so much political bs in society. And the fact that so many people talk alike and look alike creeps me out. I traveled to many places lately yet I didn't feel like a stranger.
"Really ? You think nobody would be using computers if Microsoft hadn't existed ? How do you figure that one out ?"
Actually yes some people would be using computers if Microsoft hasn't existed. But look at the percentage of people using computers before Windows 95 and the percentage of people using computers after Windows 95.
"Some companies *gasp* actually *invent new things*. Yes I know the concept is strange, but believe me, it does happen occasionally..."
Sure, that's how business works. Most of the time you'll be copying other peoples ideas, some of the time will be spent improving upon those ideas and some of it will be spent inventing new things.
"Very true; however there is a difference between stealing something and using something which is given freely.
If you don't believe me, just ask a judge."
History shows that many people can have the same idea at the same time. Look at pyramids, there's no way the word could have traveled across continents so fast yet you see pyramids in different places. I don't see what Microsoft could have stolen, usually they buy ideas.
Sure computers did exist, but Bill Gates brought them to the people.
Stealing ideas? Are you still at school? every company does that, from television shows to cars.
Besides, I thought that the GPL philosophy was all about not reinventing the wheel, using other peoples ideas and improving upon them. Look at Mandrake, they took a good Linux distribution and made it even better.
Just ask AOL and Intel how much of a contribution they make. Why do you think they didn't get sued? MS on the other hand started giving contributions too late and we all know what happened.
I admire most parents who have the courage to home-school there children. On the other hand, will that really prepare them for a capitalist life? not sure.
We live in a world where money matters a lot more than anything else. Creativity, analytical thinking? I don't think that fits in the picture. They're looking mostly for workaholics and heavy consumers.
Sorry, can't remember exactly, it was a television show I watched a few months ago I believe it was on TLC. Basically it said that school slowed the child's brain development process. They only talked about children.
At least this movie didn't really make it look like it was a good vs evil battle. That's what I liked about it, it wasn't as simple as the usual Arnold movies are.
I mean this guy is the chief scientist of Sun Microsystems and the co-author of "The Java language specification", what exactly do you expect him to say about C# ?
Am I the only one who thinks that very few people sent there comments? My guess is that they're probably all from geeks. I don't think that the rest of the world cares about this subject.
I don't care if MS is evil or has a monopoly or whatever the hell, I just want to use the best tools for the job. The thing is that MS always provided great tools for making simple apps but when you try to create something a little bit more advanced using MS tools, it was a pain in the ass. Did they solve that with.NET? I'm not sure. I used to be able to look at PHP and ASP code and quickly understand how it works; with the new ASP.NET, I look at the code and I get confused, I have no idea what code does what.
One OS is anti-American the other is Anti-democracy. Who would've thought that OS's could evolve to that point? People are even voting for the OS of there choice depending on which moral value, license, etc. each OS represents.
This gives a whole new meaning to elections. Let's just hope that politicians won't sue the OS's for unfair competition:)
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well CmdrTaco, you better have a real expensive wedding because as you said yesterday "you get what you pay for" :)
What's wrong with monopolies? Look at Air Canada, the canadian government helped the competition and stopped air Canada from lowering there prices. Result, the competition went bankrupt and Air Canada have a $4 billion in debts.
On the other hand, the cable company have a monopoly and my broadband internet access costs me $20/month.
Has CmdrTaco lost his mind? He uses a free OS yet he says "you get what you pay for". Go figure. Of course he'll say anything to defend VA
And exactly how many people where using computers before Windows 95?
If Windows booted on an 8088, why exactly would people need 1Ghz machines? Processor makers would've gone bankrupt a long time ago.
price = $0 = capitalism ? You're brilliant
"My point is that MS can only dream of comming up with an idea as useful and reliable as a cheap mobile phone. Actually, I don't think they can even dream of it as it would require putting a product out that works which gets in the way of the cashflow from mugs like you. "
And of course if they did it you would be the first to say that they're abusing of there monopoly.
Windows doesn't suck for me.
I believe that MS chose to settle to but some states aren't accepting the settlement.
I don't see how Intel or Microsoft stifle innovation.
"However, Intel at least sees themselves as part of our society -- Microsoft sees themsevles as above our society"
Can't really comment on that. I believe that there's way too many laws and so much political bs in society. And the fact that so many people talk alike and look alike creeps me out. I traveled to many places lately yet I didn't feel like a stranger.
"Really ? You think nobody would be using computers if Microsoft hadn't existed ? How do you figure that one out ?"
Actually yes some people would be using computers if Microsoft hasn't existed. But look at the percentage of people using computers before Windows 95 and the percentage of people using computers after Windows 95.
"Some companies *gasp* actually *invent new things*. Yes I know the concept is strange, but believe me, it does happen occasionally..."
Sure, that's how business works. Most of the time you'll be copying other peoples ideas, some of the time will be spent improving upon those ideas and some of it will be spent inventing new things.
"Very true; however there is a difference between stealing something and using something which is given freely.
If you don't believe me, just ask a judge."
History shows that many people can have the same idea at the same time. Look at pyramids, there's no way the word could have traveled across continents so fast yet you see pyramids in different places. I don't see what Microsoft could have stolen, usually they buy ideas.
Oh yeah? Before Windows 95 how many people used computers? Really not much. Microsoft drove this industry into mainstream.
Sure computers did exist, but Bill Gates brought them to the people.
Stealing ideas? Are you still at school? every company does that, from television shows to cars.
Besides, I thought that the GPL philosophy was all about not reinventing the wheel, using other peoples ideas and improving upon them. Look at Mandrake, they took a good Linux distribution and made it even better.
I guess that in your futuristic vision you dreamed of a world with light OS's requiring 386 cpu's. Who exactly would want the 1Ghz machines then?
26 years in computing, you must be pretty old yet you don't seem to know that every big company gives huge contributions in order to avoid lawsuits.
How did MS destroy the computer industry? They created it.
Where exactly do you live? You should know by now that every big company does that. Why do you think that Intel never got sued?
Just ask AOL and Intel how much of a contribution they make. Why do you think they didn't get sued? MS on the other hand started giving contributions too late and we all know what happened.
I admire most parents who have the courage to home-school there children. On the other hand, will that really prepare them for a capitalist life? not sure.
We live in a world where money matters a lot more than anything else. Creativity, analytical thinking? I don't think that fits in the picture. They're looking mostly for workaholics and heavy consumers.
Yet you post anonymously. Keep in mind that not everyone in here lives in the U.S. and so yes you're going to find a lot of spelling errors.
Sorry, can't remember exactly, it was a television show I watched a few months ago I believe it was on TLC. Basically it said that school slowed the child's brain development process. They only talked about children.
Actually a scientific study shows that school isn't good for the development of children below the age of seven years.
hey now it's not my fault if they teach us Ada in college.
At least this movie didn't really make it look like it was a good vs evil battle. That's what I liked about it, it wasn't as simple as the usual Arnold movies are.
I mean this guy is the chief scientist of Sun Microsystems and the co-author of "The Java language specification", what exactly do you expect him to say about C# ?
Am I the only one who thinks that very few people sent there comments? My guess is that they're probably all from geeks. I don't think that the rest of the world cares about this subject.
I don't care if MS is evil or has a monopoly or whatever the hell, I just want to use the best tools for the job. The thing is that MS always provided great tools for making simple apps but when you try to create something a little bit more advanced using MS tools, it was a pain in the ass. Did they solve that with .NET? I'm not sure. I used to be able to look at PHP and ASP code and quickly understand how it works; with the new ASP.NET, I look at the code and I get confused, I have no idea what code does what.
One OS is anti-American the other is Anti-democracy. Who would've thought that OS's could evolve to that point? People are even voting for the OS of there choice depending on which moral value, license, etc. each OS represents.
:)
This gives a whole new meaning to elections. Let's just hope that politicians won't sue the OS's for unfair competition
I thought that IBM was going to be supporting Linux.