Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 01:42:37 10/28/01
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Cristophe, Yes, I did not agree with you. That's not only me -- Bob Hyatt also don't agree with you. And I believe nobody can name him MS lover. When you are out of your technical arguments, you are going to legal ones. Ok, but let's wait for the Appeal and/or Supreme Court decision on the *entire* case. Eugene On October 28, 2001 at 01:53:33, Christophe Theron wrote: >On October 28, 2001 at 00:33:09, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>As a programmer who wrote a lot of code for the different systems, let me >>suggest the *real* nightmare. At one day, you and Ed will decide to write the >>wonderful GUI chess application that includes everything chess user may want, >>i.e. product that competes with Chessbase GUI (you like the competition, right >>:-)). And you'll go to your statistics page to find out for which OS you want to >>write. And you'll see something like >> >> Windows 12.5% >> MacOS 12.5% >> BeOS 12.5% >> PalmOS 12.5% >> Linux, GNOME 12.5% >> Linux, KDE 12.5% >> Solaris 12.5% >> Unknown 12.5% >> >>Standartization on one platform was a necessity for the consumer device. >>Probably DOS/Windows was not the best platform. But it won, and won due to the >>simple fact: MS made much less errors than competitors. >> >>And why you don't like WMP? Nobody forces you to use it. You can go and buy any >>other player. > > > >It seems that you still misunderstand me as the basic Microsoft hater, Eugene. > >You miss the point and you shouldn't, because I have already taken care of >explaining my point of view to you. > >I like Windows. I don't like the fact that Microsoft is turning it into a >gigantic advertisement platform, but I do not dislike it (as long as I can >remove the fat with 98lite for example). > >I'm not even criticizing the quality of the products. I could, but it's not the >point. > >I have no problem with the fact that one platform has gained major acceptance. >You are right by pointing that this is a good thing for our business. > >My problem is the fact that we are all putting the future of the control of >information into the hands of a single, misbehaving, company. > >Microsoft has ILLEGALLY used is monopoly on the OS market to hurt Netscape for >example. There are other examples, but this one has been recognized as an >illegal action by a US justice court. > >It should be clear by now that Microsoft does ANYTHING, legal or not, in order >to keep its dominance on the information world. > >This is a too much sensitive area. We, as consumers, are making a major mistake >by accepting to give it all to a single, REPEATEDLY MISBEHAVING, company. The US >government is making a major mistake by acting so softly and so slowly against >Microsoft. > > > > Christophe
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