It's quite convenient for MS to sit and see what works, then create their own, and with their dominance in desktop OS, they can easily claim a huge chunk of the desktop-suite market share overnight.
Sadly, this is exactly what is happening with FireFox. With all this excitement around FF I've been surprised so many people can't see the fact that as long as IE is bundled with Windows, any other browser just can't gain a significant market share. Starting FF requires the user first to download and install the software. Starting IE requires the user to push "the blue internet-button". Sadly, for many users IE is "The internet".
Communism on the other hand was supposed to be the "fair" distribution of scarce resources, which for all practial purposes is impossible. There is no such thing in life that is ever truly fair nor can it be, beyond age five when mom would measure out exactly the same ammount of ice cream to shut you and your whiny sibling up about who got more, which is why Communism failed.
Actually real (ideal) Communism has never failed since it has never existed, nor ever will. The problem about the Communist societies we've seen so far is that mom ate all the ice cream.
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It's quite convenient for MS to sit and see what works, then create their own, and with their dominance in desktop OS, they can easily claim a huge chunk of the desktop-suite market share overnight.
Sadly, this is exactly what is happening with FireFox. With all this excitement around FF I've been surprised so many people can't see the fact that as long as IE is bundled with Windows, any other browser just can't gain a significant market share. Starting FF requires the user first to download and install the software. Starting IE requires the user to push "the blue internet-button". Sadly, for many users IE is "The internet".
Communism on the other hand was supposed to be the "fair" distribution of scarce resources, which for all practial purposes is impossible. There is no such thing in life that is ever truly fair nor can it be, beyond age five when mom would measure out exactly the same ammount of ice cream to shut you and your whiny sibling up about who got more, which is why Communism failed.
Actually real (ideal) Communism has never failed since it has never existed, nor ever will. The problem about the Communist societies we've seen so far is that mom ate all the ice cream.