Re:Microsoft split (Score 1)

Please do let me know how you interlaced your replies with my text. I could do it on BBSes .. But here?? I copied it to a clip board then did the needful. > Microsoft, simply put, is, and has, a monopoly in PC operating systems, and pretty > much any part of the applications realm it chooses to absorb. It does have a monoply -- right . Did that prevent companies far larger IBM , HP maybe DEC from getting in . Or was it so good that no amount of finances and intellectual resources could equal it. In that case limitations of existing laws should not be seen as a fault of the company. >For the vast majority of people, >there is no alternative whatsoever. So why don't they use public money to create alternatives instead of wasting it on litigation > For the vast majority of people, to remove every single Microsoft-written file of any > kind from their computers would render the computer utterly useless. > It wouldn't even boot, for most people. If that doesn't represent the power of a > monopoly, I don't know what does. Round one to Microsoft I think. With all due respect misuse of a monoply position maybe an infringement of some law , being one should not be . > That's the point: Microsoft has very effectively prevented any competion. By being very good . So the US which has generated so many new products or provided a market for them , needs them to be developed at the same time by 2 or more different sources. This has frequently been the worst sort of thinking in defense of Microsoft: "They're > really good at what they do; let's let them do what ever they want!" So being very good is an offense of sorts in the US.