Can you go into a store in Sydney and buy a Samsung Galaxy 10.1?

I'm not talking about oil, I'm talking about computers and software. Do you know what that difference is? Oil goes in your daddy's car, a computer is what you are typing on in your mom's basement.

Yes, Microsoft was found to infringe on anti-trust law; for doing the same thing that other companies do. Microsoft's "crime" was being successful. And I do not believe that every "judge that's ever served" agreed with that ruling. And you would be dumb to listen to an argument? Ok, you're mind is already made up, I won't try to confuse you with those irritating little facts. Judges in your world are apparently perfect, like the judges who ruled that people can be property, or that innocent people can be sold to private juvenile facilities for a nice kick-back.

And where did I take a 100% definition? My claim is that there has always been freedom of choice. Whether or not Microsoft engaged in anti-competitive practices (they did), they never were able to exert the same control that Apple does.

I can understand how you might (incorrectly) think that I am stupid, but how am I a liar? Where am I making a statement that I know to be false? Or do you just consider me a liar because I disagree with you?

Again, my point was just that Apple does not need anything in order to be the "new Microsoft". They always have been.

I would say that the market was dictated by choice. And I didn't want to get into an argument over the definiton of monopoly. Apple already behaves like a monopolist; they always have. How different would desktop computing have been if Apple had sold their operating system to run on x86 hardware? Or if Apple had allowed a variety of manufacturers to produce compatible hardware? Apple wanted to, and continues to want to, limit the consumers freedom of choice. When Microsoft released Windows 95, what if they had said that you could only run software that you bought from them? On hardware that you bought from them? And if you wanted to sell software, Microsoft had to approve it, and get a 30% cut? And they get a cut of transactions that are performed within the software? My point was that Apple doesn't need anything to be the new Microsoft. They are worse than Microsoft, and they always have been.

Coward.

If that's what they choose to do, that's their choice. There was plenty of freedom of choice. There was never a "monopoly". There were even "Desktop Computers" that could not run Windows.

And you could run a variety of operating systems on "Desktop Computers".

My point exactly.

What other market share? They have 100% of the iPad market. Any time you arbitrarily define a market, you can define it in such a way that someone has a monopoly. Just like the false claim that Microsoft had a "monopoly". There were many CPU architectures that Microsoft did not even work on. At the same time that Apple refused to let other companies produce hardware that their operating system could run on. There was always plenty of options to choose other than Microsoft. Apple is far, far more malicious than Microsoft ever was.

I enjoy listening to music from recording artist "Q-Tip" on my Droid. I usually use a cotton swab to clean my ears before using my earphones.

Power corrupts; and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely!

What if they don't have the code? What if it was developed by a third party under contract?

Or the rational thing to do is to not use software with a viral license.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/24/gmail.crash/index.html

At least I have 2 Senators.

• Office 2007 (usually Word, sometimes Excel, always Outlook)
• World of Warcraft
• IE
• Azureus
• Windows Media Player
• Visual Studio Team Suite
• KOTOR II

Just whatever I needed to use. Worked perfectly fine. WoW was tricky and required a new $99 video card, but that was for WoW not Vista, Vista was fine with the onboard video.

I obviously didn't run everything at the same time. I almost always had Outlook open, usually had IE open. If I was playing WoW then there probably wasn't anything else open, other than outlook and IE.

If I was running VSTE then I probably wasn't running WoW, but I would be running SQL Express, ASP.NET development web server, multiple instances of IE, Outlook, Word, and Visio.