"Also, think of all the features offered today on your phone line. Compare that to the standard applications that come with windows. Call waiting, three-way-calling, caller id, etc.,...If AT&T had not been broken up, whether we would have these inovations in telephone technology is a real question."
I suggest that you check your facts before you start spouting off like you did... The majority of the telephony innovations you talk about were not invented by AT&T, nor Bell Labs (I admit, some of them were)... they were invented by Northern Telecom, or Nortel as it is known now... they are licensed to US telcos... So that point is invalid, because in this case, yes, innovations in telephony would have continued if AT&T was not split...
"Also, the statement that Netscape had no chance of becoming a platform is dead wrong, and Microsoft knows it. It can be explained in four characters...".net"..net means your web browser is now a platform. How many of you really believe Microsoft's.net products will work just as well on third party browsers as on Windows/IE?"
I'm not a hardcore programmer, but how many computers do you know in this world that run only using a browser...??? Not any I'm aware of... it wouldn't be a browser anymore, it would be an "operating system". URG!
In any case, I think we're all missing the point: Is MS a monopoly? Of course, no dispute there... How did it get there? Good marketing? Yes... Muscling out competing products? Duh, that's called capitalism at it's finest. How did MS become a monopoly? Because their product was designed for anyone (including the millions of morons, or those less computer-literate) to learn quickly and easily.
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I suggest that you check your facts before you start spouting off like you did... The majority of the telephony innovations you talk about were not invented by AT&T, nor Bell Labs (I admit, some of them were)... they were invented by Northern Telecom, or Nortel as it is known now... they are licensed to US telcos...
So that point is invalid, because in this case, yes, innovations in telephony would have continued if AT&T was not split...
"Also, the statement that Netscape had no chance of becoming a platform is dead wrong, and Microsoft knows it. It can be explained in four characters...".net". .net means your web browser is now a platform. How many of you really believe Microsoft's .net products will work just as well on third party browsers as on Windows/IE?"
I'm not a hardcore programmer, but how many computers do you know in this world that run only using a browser...??? Not any I'm aware of... it wouldn't be a browser anymore, it would be an "operating system". URG!
In any case, I think we're all missing the point: Is MS a monopoly? Of course, no dispute there... How did it get there? Good marketing? Yes... Muscling out competing products? Duh, that's called capitalism at it's finest. How did MS become a monopoly? Because their product was designed for anyone (including the millions of morons, or those less computer-literate) to learn quickly and easily.
You trademark the name. If anyone wants to challenge the new name, I start breaking kneecaps.
Simple enough. One sale is all it takes.
Or even easier: Start your own company, and make each person on the team buy a copy for 1 dollar each.
-"If I wanted your lip, I'd rattle my zipper."-anon.
Let me learn what I want to learn, not what you tell me I should know...
"If I wanted your lip, I'd rattle my zipper..."
The closeness in name to a certain slang for a female body part will quickly overtake that name, especially if the Disk turns out to be flaky...