Europeans doing what we should have done - pound MS into compliance

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Originally Posted by Iceman

What a load of horse puckys...suing a company because other people are forced to reverse engineer it's product in order to make something work for them that was not enabled by the "Original" creator....How thoughtless of Mr. Gates to have something that has made him alot of money...sounds like sour grapes...screw Linux and Macs....let em develop they're own stuff on they're own and if Microsoft felt inclined to help them then that should be fine but why should they be forced into divulging anything about they're products if they so choose not to.

Bunch of non-sense...if anything Microsoft should make it as hard as hell to interwine any products it does not want mingling with Windows...if people don't like it then is'nt that why Linux has done so well in the first place....it went it's own way?

For a niche product, I agree with you. What you are talking about now is a commodity and that is where things change. Same as Bell telecom in the past, Standard Oil, etc. Just think if Standard Oil made things so you could only use Shell motor oil in your engine, and then started charging $300 a quart. You have taken the commodity and made it a monopoly. This is why we have laws to protect against this kind of BS.

-S

PS. What has happened over the years is MS has made Windows technically impossible to even talk to from a different machine unless MS programmed in support like they do for MAC. How about video? How about the fiasco for VM? MS put VM on all PC's and purposely broke Sun JAVA from working on VM. These are the unethical dealings of a monopoly. All I want is my Linux boxes to talk to my WIndows boxes and work together in harmony - and that is what the EU is doing. I don't care for much beyond that. This is a negative for MS which is why they don't do it because it upset their tight control.

PPS. Need I even talk about Direct X?