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Yo Mike,
Regarding items 1 & 2, I'd suggest you try reading the FAQ link I previously
posted instead of continuing to spread misinformation:
http://www.moraldefense.com/Campaigns/Microsoft/Antitrust_FAQ/default.htm
As to 3, where is it written that any business must support a competitor?
Hell, the small computer software company I currently work for is currently
running ads in some computer trade journals naming a competitor and
denigrating the [high] cost of their competing product. We're telling
people to give up on the competitor and come over to us. We want to kick
their ass, plain & simple <g>. Every company does this, some more overt
than others. If I had my own company, I would also push the envelope as
much as I thought I could get away with to minimize the effects of
competitors on my business and my bottom line. Got to pay the mortgage and
bills, after all...
As to rules for fair business conduct - they already exist in the form of
laws. If you choose to violate an existing law, then you MAY wind up paying
a penalty. The again, you MAY NOT - if you pay off (fund) the right people.
That's the way the USA works right now, like it or not.
But if you are referring to some metaphysical sense of "fairness", then that
will never happen. What is fair? Who determines what is fair? Society?
Does that mean the 43% of the people who actually pull the lever in a voting
booth? Or are you talking about your perception of fairness? Face it-
business is like war, you either win or you lose. PERIOD. This is the way
the world is. Learn to live with it.
JW
Copyright © 1999
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of mike
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 9:32 AM
To: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Microsoft Redux
Gentlemen:
There is an ironic adage in politics that the last refuge for
self-serving political demagogues is wrapping themselves up in the
American flag. A parallel observation could be that it is the refuge of
anti-competitive monopolists to wrap themselves up in the mantra of free
markets. For those defenders of Microsoft, let's remember that:
1) As part of its stated business strategy, as documented in the
company's own memos brought to light during the trial, Microsoft
DELIBERATELY distributed a version of Java that was defective in order
to contaminate the growing popularity of the language. That's a stated
fact, according to Microsoft's own documentation.
2) During the trial, Microsoft deliberately attempted to mislead the
Judge by rigging product demonstrations to prove the IE couldn't be
removed from Windows when in fact it could be.
3) Concurrent with this lawsuit, Microsoft is also being sued by Blue
Mountain Arts for setting up Microsoft's Outlook Express e-mail system
so that it won't accept e-postcards from Blue Mountain's wildly
successful website at the same time Microsoft was launching their own
e-postcard site.
Why shouldn't there be rules of fair conduct in business as there are in
every other mode of society?
Sincerely,
Michael Strupp
Chicago, IL
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