The problem is, most people honestly don't care about Microsoft's politics in the least. They just want to surf the Web, write e-mail, and type in a word processor. Despite all the IE security holes and OE worms, people still don't understand that there are better solutions out there. I can honestly tell you that most people either have never heard of open-source Unix solutions, or if they have, to them it's just a distant concept of "something different than Windows."
I think the main thing to focus on is making more clueless PC users aware of alternate OS solutions and giving them a CD-based Linux distro to try out. If they like it, they can get a Red Hat distro so they won't tear their hair out in bewilderment and confusion during the installation and swear off Unix forever.
May I ask what kind of technologies is Microsoft offering to other companies? All I can think of is.NET
The judge said it was unclear whether Microsoft's competitors were unhappy with terms of the offers or simply not interested, "and there's not much we can do about that."
It was probably a combination of both. Realistically, unless the company is designing software directly aimed at home and office desktop users, they probably won't find all the licensing hassles with Microsoft to be worth the trouble.
Also, that bit about SCO licensing technologies from MS made for a hearty chuckle.
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The problem is, most people honestly don't care about Microsoft's politics in the least. They just want to surf the Web, write e-mail, and type in a word processor. Despite all the IE security holes and OE worms, people still don't understand that there are better solutions out there. I can honestly tell you that most people either have never heard of open-source Unix solutions, or if they have, to them it's just a distant concept of "something different than Windows."
I think the main thing to focus on is making more clueless PC users aware of alternate OS solutions and giving them a CD-based Linux distro to try out. If they like it, they can get a Red Hat distro so they won't tear their hair out in bewilderment and confusion during the installation and swear off Unix forever.