It is true that there are other companies who are probably doing more to harm consumers than Microsoft (AOL Time Warner, Disney, etc over here in the UK British Telecom comes to mind). But it does not follow that Microsoft shouldn't be punished-- I think this fits under the categor of the 'fallacy of two wrongs'. A better conclusion would be that penalties should be imposed on other companies as well.
Companies are encouraged by the markets to become big (by the premium which comes along with having a place in the DOW or FTSE 100 or whatever and consequently getting targetted by index tracking funds). My pet opinion is that all companies above a certain capitalisation should be penalised in some way (perhaps with higher taxes or removal of limited liability status); this would encourage large companies to spin-off divisions and I think also lead to greater efficiency.
Looks like we shut down their MySQL server.
Still, a good idea. I wonder if I can persuade my boss to give away some of the stuff we have kicking around our office?
Not sure about this as a summary of Capital. As I remember, the key to it was Marx' brand of the labour theory of value, and that isn't mentioned here.
Still, I've thought for a while that Marx is becoming more and not less relevant to our current economy (and one doesn't need to be a socialist to think that).
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You might want to look at Meerkat as well. I don't know much about it, but it uses PHP and Perl.
It is true that there are other companies who are probably doing more to harm consumers than Microsoft (AOL Time Warner, Disney, etc over here in the UK British Telecom comes to mind). But it does not follow that Microsoft shouldn't be punished-- I think this fits under the categor of the 'fallacy of two wrongs'. A better conclusion would be that penalties should be imposed on other companies as well.
Companies are encouraged by the markets to become big (by the premium which comes along with having a place in the DOW or FTSE 100 or whatever and consequently getting targetted by index tracking funds). My pet opinion is that all companies above a certain capitalisation should be penalised in some way (perhaps with higher taxes or removal of limited liability status); this would encourage large companies to spin-off divisions and I think also lead to greater efficiency.
Happy to see that they will start using XML for their file formats. Up to now (at least as far as I know), only Abiword has done this.
Looks like we shut down their MySQL server. Still, a good idea. I wonder if I can persuade my boss to give away some of the stuff we have kicking around our office?
Not sure about this as a summary of Capital. As I remember, the key to it was Marx' brand of the labour theory of value, and that isn't mentioned here. Still, I've thought for a while that Marx is becoming more and not less relevant to our current economy (and one doesn't need to be a socialist to think that).