A small lesson on the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and any other Ammendments, apply only, solely, and specifically to lawful interactions between the government and the populance. It does not rule over interactions between two citizens, or between a corporation and a citizen.
In other words, while you can stand on a street corner and say that Congress' spending is financial misconduct, you have NO GOD-GIVEN (or Congress-given) RIGHT to stand at a Walmart aisle and say their trade practices are monopolistic. They can and probably will ask you to leave their private property. You have no choice but to suck it in.
If Borders wishes you to leave their bookshop, they can make you leave their private property. If they wish to make everyone identified by their camera system leave, they can make you leave. If they say you're a known shoplifter and you aren't, you might be able to sue for libel/slander. However, they don't have to specify a reason. They may simply tell you to leave, and if it's their property, you're legally complied to do so.
If it comes to the Huxlian nightmare where big corporations have you tagged, they might be committing the same mistake doubleclick and all those other ad companies made, in gathering too much personal information, even if it isn't linked to a name, phone number, credit card, or address.
However, if your next door neighbor can recognize you at Walmart, so can Walmart recognize you as a returning visitor, or a shoplifter. If you don't wish to be recognized, by neighbor or Walmart, don't go, or wear a Clinton mask. The ones with the puffy pink cheeks.
...they also guarenteed that the purchaser would not have a copy of Netscape no matter what inticements Netscape offered the OEMs.
Bullshit. They didn't let OEMs uninstall IE and install Netscape. However, an OEM could install Netscape at will, as long as IE was still there.
Microsoft has every right to include whatever they want as part of XP. If competitors complain that this makes it to "easy" for consumers to indulge in passivity and not buy more products, well, shame then. That's just Microsoft's competitors trying to use the government position as all-powerful to make people buy things. Don't we all hate Big Brother?
It's not fair, you say? Microsoft should make it INCONVENIENT for their customers to get what they want? Microsoft should place hardships upon themselves? Please. If the customer does not like Microsoft, they won't buy it.
But they have a monopoly, you say! Customers don't get a choice. Well, if you don't like it, -give- customers a choice. Give them another OS from which to choose.
It's called free-enterprise. Capitalism. It's based on opportunity. You can create your own opportunity. Isn't that the all-holy "American Dream"?
The choice customers have is Linux, you say. Understandable, with this crowd. Well, that means customers do have a choice. However... No one uses Linux. It's Open Source. Very commendable. It gets bug fixes within 5 minutes of anything major. Very commendable. Still, there's something... Ohh, right. You need a B.CS. to even install it, much less configure it, or figure out how everything works.
Well, you say, if the customer doesn't know how to compile a kernel, then they deserve M$.
That's why consumers like Microsoft. They've succeeded where Linux has failed. It's called the ease-of-use department.
"What do you despise? By this you are truly known." --Dune
Economic powerhouse? Hardly likely.
India is what is normally reffered to as a Newly Industrialized Country. As seen above, they're rushing head-long into the industrialized world. A few years ago they blew a nuke, and now they're launching satelites. (I hope they don't try to mix nukes and satelites.)
However, India is still light-years behind the "Western world" (US, Canada, Europe). Closer, economically stronger, and through the industrialized fase for longer would be China.
Considering China was the only Asian economy not to topple during the Asian financial crisis...
There's an economic powerhouse.
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A small lesson on the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and any other Ammendments, apply only, solely, and specifically to lawful interactions between the government and the populance. It does not rule over interactions between two citizens, or between a corporation and a citizen.
In other words, while you can stand on a street corner and say that Congress' spending is financial misconduct, you have NO GOD-GIVEN (or Congress-given) RIGHT to stand at a Walmart aisle and say their trade practices are monopolistic. They can and probably will ask you to leave their private property. You have no choice but to suck it in.
If Borders wishes you to leave their bookshop, they can make you leave their private property. If they wish to make everyone identified by their camera system leave, they can make you leave. If they say you're a known shoplifter and you aren't, you might be able to sue for libel/slander. However, they don't have to specify a reason. They may simply tell you to leave, and if it's their property, you're legally complied to do so.
If it comes to the Huxlian nightmare where big corporations have you tagged, they might be committing the same mistake doubleclick and all those other ad companies made, in gathering too much personal information, even if it isn't linked to a name, phone number, credit card, or address.
However, if your next door neighbor can recognize you at Walmart, so can Walmart recognize you as a returning visitor, or a shoplifter. If you don't wish to be recognized, by neighbor or Walmart, don't go, or wear a Clinton mask. The ones with the puffy pink cheeks.
This is just the kind of modding up that discredits the /. system... Ohh well, life goes on.
Anyone who tries to sell Cracker Jacks outside of the U.S. should watch it after this one...
Bullshit. They didn't let OEMs uninstall IE and install Netscape. However, an OEM could install Netscape at will, as long as IE was still there.
Microsoft has every right to include whatever they want as part of XP. If competitors complain that this makes it to "easy" for consumers to indulge in passivity and not buy more products, well, shame then. That's just Microsoft's competitors trying to use the government position as all-powerful to make people buy things. Don't we all hate Big Brother?
It's not fair, you say? Microsoft should make it INCONVENIENT for their customers to get what they want? Microsoft should place hardships upon themselves? Please. If the customer does not like Microsoft, they won't buy it.
But they have a monopoly, you say! Customers don't get a choice. Well, if you don't like it, -give- customers a choice. Give them another OS from which to choose.
It's called free-enterprise. Capitalism. It's based on opportunity. You can create your own opportunity. Isn't that the all-holy "American Dream"?
The choice customers have is Linux, you say. Understandable, with this crowd. Well, that means customers do have a choice. However... No one uses Linux. It's Open Source. Very commendable. It gets bug fixes within 5 minutes of anything major. Very commendable. Still, there's something... Ohh, right. You need a B.CS. to even install it, much less configure it, or figure out how everything works.
Well, you say, if the customer doesn't know how to compile a kernel, then they deserve M$.
That's why consumers like Microsoft. They've succeeded where Linux has failed. It's called the ease-of-use department.
"What do you despise? By this you are truly known." --Dune
Economic powerhouse? Hardly likely. India is what is normally reffered to as a Newly Industrialized Country. As seen above, they're rushing head-long into the industrialized world. A few years ago they blew a nuke, and now they're launching satelites. (I hope they don't try to mix nukes and satelites.) However, India is still light-years behind the "Western world" (US, Canada, Europe). Closer, economically stronger, and through the industrialized fase for longer would be China. Considering China was the only Asian economy not to topple during the Asian financial crisis... There's an economic powerhouse.