The facts of this charge of anti-competitiveness against Apple are hardly clear, yet you have tried and convicted Apple of the crimes of MS? Shouldn't we wait for the whole story, before condemning Apple?

I think it is about time to retire the "Al Gore invented the Internet" jokes. Al Gore never made that claim; the RNC created that sound bite and released it to the media. Al Gore facilitated the internet by sponsoring the legislation that funded the infrastructure of the internet, and credit for that is the statement made by Gore that the RNC distorted into the famous "invented" quote. Gore deserves credit for having the vision to appreciate the importance of the internet, when other legislators did not. Even the 'the father of the Internet', Vint Cerf, gives Gore that credit.

Why say allegedly? MS eventually paid Apple (Scully's time) for use of some interface features to head off that lawsuit. The flagship apps of Office were Mac apps before long they were Windows apps. So, you expect us to believe that MS used none of what they learned during years of writing for Apple's GUI in the development of Windows?

However, this Mac ad is humorous because it does accurately reflect statements/promises issued about the Windows releases mentioned in the ad.

Except in the cases of monopolies or small groups of price-fixing corporations that provide essential services (energy, health insurance and care,etc). If one is dependent on such services, then the fees corporations charge are completely analogous with taxes, only corporations can raise their "taxes" at will with no appeal possible.

Don't you mean "supporting 'the other' aggressive empire-building regime in Europe"?

Don't you mean, "to stop the Americans supporting 'the other' aggressive empire-building regime in Europe..."

I agree wholeheartedly. I haven't used crossover cables for desktop - laptop connections in the past two years. And, as you state, MDI/MDIX also eliminates the need to use crossover cables to add switches to a LAN, which was probably their most important use.