From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:3e46f54a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> You choose an odd term. I see you and Barr as whining endlessly. What
> irritates me is your continual carping. I don't know why you personally
give
> a toss about MS. I don't.
>

Bollox. You earn your living from MS. No MS products to build off &
...what happens to tthe value of your skills?

> I don't care about politics and courts. If Windows were cheaper and better
> then the anti-trust actions would have been worth-while. It seems to me
that
> MS have won.
>

Bollox again. You obviously do care. Re MS ....the door has been opened by
being found to have been breaking various laws regarding competition &
abuse of monopoly. In the US private enterprise law now has it's go, the PC
makers can turn round & tell MS that if they attempt any nasty contract
clauses they will get into even worse legal waters & finally the EU has
still not decided what to do about MS's infringements of EU competition
law.

For me that's great as I want to see proper OS competition as I think we
(the OS consumers) will all benefit & frankly I care about me much more
than I care about MS or any other OS maker.

I would love to see a plethora of PC form factors running a plethora of
OS'es. I wouldn't want to see a 95% Linux domination any more than a 95%
BeOS or a 95% Windows domination.

I would love to see a return to the 90'es with portable OS'es where I could
run WinXP on PPC or OSX on Intel but I'm not holding my breath on that one.

> It also seems to me that the alternatives are getting along quite well
> despite the benefit of state assistance, and that's how it should be.
>

Would you view the various laws the Software industry has had pushed
through re "copyright theft" etc as "state assistance"?
I certainly would & those provisions are still in place.

> Anyway, can you move your noise postings to another group? Perhaps Geo
could
> create 'homeless.twisters' for you, Joe and Adam to post links to spin. If
> anything important happens I'm sure it will spill over.
>

Why read & respond to a posting entitled "why IE became
popular" which is obviously based in conjecture & where the views
are obviously going to be subjective?


Adam

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