Re: Boycott Microsoft Website

From: Andy Bober <muajb2@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>

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

curtis cameron wrote:
>
> 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

Besides, the best way to hurt Microsoft isn't boycotting their website.
I would imagine that the best thing any programmer could do is not
develop for any of Microsoft's operating systems.  Windows is empowered
by the public that used the myriad of applications that are available
for the OS as well as there ability to share data with each other and
all the other perks that Windows applicatinos offer.  But without
applications, or maybe better(and more) applications on other platforms,
Microsoft could posibly see a reduction in popularity.

Andy

References

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
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
Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
curtis cameron <curtisc1@remove.airmail.net>
Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

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
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
Re: Boycott Microsoft Website
curtis cameron <curtisc1@remove.airmail.net>
Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000