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Re: Don't Become Succsessful.
Posted By: Stephen, on host 24.177.136.75
Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2001, at 15:59:53
In Reply To: Don't Become Succsessful. posted by Help on Tuesday, March 6, 2001, at 15:04:41:

> I think it stinks what happened to Microsoft, and whats going to become of Verison. Bill Gates pushed the computing world where it is today, and the only way for the government to show their thanks is to hack him to pieces. Just becuase he smoked the other companies.

Uhhh... right. And he "smoked" those companies due to superior products, better prices and incredible support, right? I mean, Netscape got destroyed not because Bill Gates decided to give away a competing product for free (not to mention including it in the OS), but because IE really was better than NS (it is today, but not three years ago).

Microsoft has never used its incredible pull with OEMs (people like Compaq or Dell) to prevent them from including other, competing software with new machines.

Microsoft has never completely ripped off another company's software, lost a lawsuit. I mean, the good folks at Stacker have a huge company today.

Microsoft is not being slammed for being big. Microsoft is slammed because they make crappy software and use their monopoly and predatory tactics to push said software down everyone's throat.

Stephen

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