Re: Boycott Microsoft Website

From: "Lady Reaper" <maktos@ix.netcom.com>

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Very nice post...well said.  It was both informative and useful.

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Matt McDevitt
maktos@ix.netcom.com

Chris Lomont <clomont@omni.cc.purdue.edu> wrote in article
<Pine.SOL.3.91.970320102239.949B-100000@omni.cc.purdue.edu>...
>
> Microsoft bashers need to do some homework. Microsoft is about a 10
> billion a year company, much smaller than software companies like CA and
> associates. Microsoft is not a huge financial power - look at revenues
> from AT&T, IBM, GM, Chase Manhattan banks, etc, all of which are an order

> of magnitude bigger than Microsoft.
>
> Microsoft is not a monoply - they control about 50% of the PC markets
> software. PC market, although big, is not all software, and 50% is no
> where near the legal definition of a monoply. Again look at Intel chip
> coverage, AT&T phone service, your local electricity providers (100%
> coverage).
>
> Also, Microsoft does not make license agreements that any competetive
> company wouldn't do if given the opportunity.
>
> The software industry is growing like the car industry 100 years ago.
> There were 100+ car companies around the turn of the century, and over
> time they were assimilated or closed leavig only a few big ones left in
> the US. If you wanted to make a new car company, you would be hard
> pressed. As the software industry matures, it is natural to have a few
> big players and very few others. Every industry (electric, phone, car,
> financial, appliances) has grown in such a pattern.
>
> So please stop whining, do something useful instead of trying to tear
> down a successful company, and deal with reality.
>
> Chris Lomont
>
> P.S. I am not a Microsoft supporter, but I realize that this is the way
> the business operates. Everyone just wants all this space to operate and
> make lots of software, but it is simple economics and history to see that

> the industry will become controlled by a few superpowers.
>
> Which of you has the clout to build a 2 billion dollar fab plant and make

> Pentium chips, or the staff to develop apps with the breadth of power
> like Office Suite, NT, or Visual C++ 5.0? The days of garage shop
> software are limited, and big releases mean big bucks to develop,
> support, and market. That's life....
>

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

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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