____/ Mike on Thursday 15 November 2007 20:14 : \____
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:58:24 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Mike on Thursday 15 November 2007 05:11 : \____
>>
>>> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:11:28 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> A year or two ago, Ballmer expressed his fear of Linux by saying that
>>>> Linux is a competition that is not a company. He didn't know how to
>>>> defeat it.
>>>
>>> This is really a very sad commentary when you consider that it's coming
>>> from the top exec at one of the largest corporations in the country.
>>> Never even considered the notion of doing a better job of serving the
>>> consumer than the competition, no that's a completely foreign concept
>>> to these monopoly-centric morons at msft. One needs to examine a very
>>> basic question here: why does a corporation exist? The answer should
>>> be: to maximize benefit for the society which it serves. Normally,
>>> competitive markets yield this result for the consumer, but in the case
>>> of a monopoly this does not occur and the net value to society is
>>> negative. This is of course why there is antitrust regulation,
>>> however, as none of it has been enforced against msft what has evolved
>>> is a highly counterproductive corporation run by robber barons which do
>>> nothing but try to destroy those entities which are actually trying to
>>> do a better job of serving the consumer. So while in the long run all
>>> monopolies are eventually destroyed, in the mean time until that
>>> happens it sure is painful having to put up with the likes of gates,
>>> ballmer & co.
>>
>> Intel does the same thing to defeat AMD, but that's another story which
>> I try very, very hard to keep out of c.o.l.a. because it's off topic.
>
> Yes, I agree, and probably going a bit off-topic myself but IMO the world
> would be better off without a number of corporations of which msft would
> top the list by a huge margin. When you think about all the good that
> could be done with the hundreds of billions that msft has and continues
> to suck out of the economy and it's not just that the money is wasted but
> that it's used to the detriment of those actually trying to do some
> good. And to top it all off is the army of ms-shills that keep the
> oblivious masses brainwashed into believing that msft is somehow
> (mysteriously) a great company. If the billions of monopoly money were
> to be spent exposing msft for what it really is rather than whitewashing
> it I doubt the company would be in existence for very long.
Don't forget the effect on inventors (maybe investors also). The extraction of
money is one thing, but the lack of innovation of another (recall IE6 and its
total neglect). If Microsoft can eliminate all threat, it can continue to
extract money without ever changing (improving) its products. Microsoft, which
is an example of extreme capitalism, is probably more harmful than communism,
where the industry doesn't need innovation to thrive.
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