"However, it is not a free market, the government has messed with the market and done things like patents and copyright and all kinds of stuff that mess with the market."
Your forgot anti-trust in your list of government anti-free-market examples.
None of these monopoly-related court cases were intended to help consumers. They were intended to profit specific institutions and companies (e.g. CA Counties, Sun, AOL, etc).
"At the time they were found "guilty" of leveraging their monopoly in the operating system market to gain market shares in the browser market."
Well, the US courts' position on IE is a bit muddled. In an earlier case Judge Jackson's ruling about MS bundling IE with Windows was overturned on appeal.
"The fact that they no longer have a monopoly in the browser market is an indication that the ruling had the intended effect."
I don't see how. Has MS eliminated IE from Windows? Has it been including firefox?
I was in a college dorm when SNL was making that joke. At the dorm front desk RA's would provide services for the residents including making change so they could use the vending machines.
Sometimes they would run out of change and got tired of students asking for change they didn't have, so they made a sign that said "No Change". You can probably guess what I did to it.
MS could release all of the Windows 7 source under the GPL and Slashdotters would explain why it's no big deal and ask why anyone would want it anyway.
Have you ever watched JayWalking? They probably cut out all the people who knew the answers, but there's a lot of people who don't know less obscure stuff than the name of a Russian Newspaper.
Many of today's rank-and-file soldiers were still in diapers when the original Pravda shut down in 1991.
If you shoot a projectile that contains embedded GPL'd code do you have to provide the victim with a copy of the code since there was a "distribution"?
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"The penalty was overruled but not the finding of facts."
I wasn't referring to that case. I was talking about an earlier case see http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/24/business/excerpts-from-appeals-court-ruling-on-microsoft.html?pagewanted=all
This might also explain Judge Jackson's attitude toward Microsoft since the Appeals Court had already rejected his arguments.
"However, it is not a free market, the government has messed with the market and done things like patents and copyright and all kinds of stuff that mess with the market."
Your forgot anti-trust in your list of government anti-free-market examples.
None of these monopoly-related court cases were intended to help consumers. They were intended to profit specific institutions and companies (e.g. CA Counties, Sun, AOL, etc).
Sure, it was my money but it's not anymore. I put it in my wallet so it's my wallet's money now.
I don't buy it. Most laptops aren't purchased to replace desktops models either.
I could really use the money.
"At the time they were found "guilty" of leveraging their monopoly in the operating system market to gain market shares in the browser market."
Well, the US courts' position on IE is a bit muddled. In an earlier case Judge Jackson's ruling about MS bundling IE with Windows was overturned on appeal.
"The fact that they no longer have a monopoly in the browser market is an indication that the ruling had the intended effect."
I don't see how. Has MS eliminated IE from Windows? Has it been including firefox?
I feel a disturbance in the force ... GPLv4.
Remember all the great things Xerox invented during its monopoly days?
If you have two iPhones, see ...
Just because an idea is described in wikipedia doesn't make it good.
So you still have to use sudo and create a password to install it? That part is different from "any other OS".
that the city paid 7 million dollars for software everybody else uses for free.
So netbooks are now considered a different market than PCs?
"If I understood this right, Microsoft was found guilty of using their monopoly in the OS sector to gain monopolies in other sectors"
MS wasn't "found guilty" of anything because it was a civil -- ah forget it.
So, what are these "other sectors" that MS now enjoys a monopoly in?
"They are incessant, aggressive, and well-funded."
Perhaps RMS could make a deal with them. Imagine if "free" software became part of Scientology's dogma!
Perhaps you're thinking of the Mormons. Catholics are too cheap to tithe 10%.
At least in the catholic church you can learn about the Holy Ghost without "donating" a lifetime of earnings.
You're probably right about it being too dated.
I was in a college dorm when SNL was making that joke. At the dorm front desk RA's would provide services for the residents including making change so they could use the vending machines.
Sometimes they would run out of change and got tired of students asking for change they didn't have, so they made a sign that said "No Change". You can probably guess what I did to it.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still valiantly holding on in his fight to remain dead.
You wish.
MS could release all of the Windows 7 source under the GPL and Slashdotters would explain why it's no big deal and ask why anyone would want it anyway.
Well, IE6 was released in 2001.
If you were joking, I don't get it.
Have you ever watched JayWalking? They probably cut out all the people who knew the answers, but there's a lot of people who don't know less obscure stuff than the name of a Russian Newspaper.
Many of today's rank-and-file soldiers were still in diapers when the original Pravda shut down in 1991.
If you shoot a projectile that contains embedded GPL'd code do you have to provide the victim with a copy of the code since there was a "distribution"?