Re: Boycott Microsoft Website

From: curtis cameron <curtisc1@remove.airmail.net>

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Rodger Coglan wrote:
>
> A good comparison would be the old AT&T; before it was broken up into
> the Baby Bells, it was considered a monopoly.  It was considered a
> monopoly even though in the U.S. there were approximately 2100 different
> telephone companies in existance, 'competing' with AT&T.  They were,
> without exception, in marginal markets like Outlook, Medicine Lake, Pine
> Creek, Sappington, etc in Montana.  Every state has (had?) its small,
> local, rural, phone company the  biggest of which was probably General
> Telephone.  Even after the baby bells were brought into existence, there
> was no real competition. The correlations with MS are pretty obvious --
> the 2 main competing OS for pcs are os/2 and whatever Norton calls his
> os.  I don't know where MacOS falls, but (whine!!) Intuition/CLI on the
> Amiga is probably a sad 10th place

But there is a significant difference.  Microsoft is competing in a
free market.  The old AT&T had a government-sponsored monopoly.
When a monopoly is sponsored by the government, the company does not
have to provide good products or services to stay in the market.
With OS's, we are free to buy whatever we want, and Microsoft knows
this.

-Curtis Cameron

References

Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
"Dennis Moran" <coolio@coolio9.com>
Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
mcgrath@epx.cis.umn.edu (Michael David McGrath)
Sun, 23 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
Rodger Coglan <rodger-@-oup-usa.org>
Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Boycott Microsoft Website
Jack Teh <jteh@usthk.ust.hk>
Thu, 20 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
Chris Lomont <clomont@omni.cc.purdue.edu>
Thu, 20 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
mcgrath@epx.cis.umn.edu (Michael David McGrath)
Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
"Dennis Moran" <coolio@coolio9.com>
Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
mcgrath@epx.cis.umn.edu (Michael David McGrath)
Sun, 23 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
Rodger Coglan <rodger-@-oup-usa.org>
Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Boycott Microsoft Website
Jack Teh <jteh@usthk.ust.hk>
Thu, 20 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
Chris Lomont <clomont@omni.cc.purdue.edu>
Thu, 20 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
mcgrath@epx.cis.umn.edu (Michael David McGrath)
Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000