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You die like you live: for example:
- Live by the sword, die by the sword. No tears, no complains.
or,
- Live by promoting others, die while being promoted by others. Only joy, no
regrets.
You chose. Nobody else can chose for you. And businesses function just the same
either way.
:-))
Gwenn
| -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
| Von: JW [SMTP:JW@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
| Gesendet am: Monday, November 08, 1999 9:49 AM
| An: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| Betreff: RE: Microsoft Redux
|
| Yo Mike,
|
| Regarding items 1 & 2, I'd suggest you try reading the FAQ link I previously
| posted instead of continuing to spread misinformation:
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| 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
|