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Re: [News] Fortune: Microsoft Antitrust May Lead to Its Long-term Decline

  • Subject: Re: [News] Fortune: Microsoft Antitrust May Lead to Its Long-term Decline
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:30:10 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <2022945.jvMHL4Ma9Z@schestowitz.com> <1u8ap3-1m2.ln1@ellandroad.demon.co.uk> <Ydvwg.105768$wl.99139@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>
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7 <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Mark Kent wrote:
> 
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Will Microsoft's new principles be its undoing?
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| In seeking to placate regulators and still-angry customers, Microsoft
>>>| could be setting itself up for a long-term decline.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/20/technology/microsoft.fortune/index.htm
>> 
>> That would only be true if its business model were based on illegal
>> abuse of monopoly power, surely?
> 
> 
> That sounds like business model built like a house of cards thats about to
> collapse because of one chink in the armour.
> 
>  
>> One must conclude, therefore, that the business analysts at cnn believe
>> that MS's business model is based on lock-in and exit barriers, on
>> preventing interoperability and stifling competition.
> 
> 
> So they have been dealt one small irrelevant looking
> chink in their armour by the EU and the
> house of cards begins its collapse without anyone realizing
> the significance of the event. Micoshaft now already plan
> buying back 20 billion dollars in their own shares
> paid for by windope licensees to prop up
> their imminent share price collapse.
> If micoshaft were benevelant, they wouldn't and shouldn't
> irresponsibly spend such huge mountains of money buying
> their own shares which they don't need to buy at all,
> instead exercise more worthy expenditure plans like giving it
> to a charity unconditionally.
> 
>  
>> Personally, I'll just wait for a cola astroturfer to tell us why the cnn
>> people are wrong.
> 
> 
> May be there is chink in that armour too and the asstroturfers
> are on the run from COLA!
> We know now that a lot of USA companies pay charities as
> a vehicle to hiding donors and their money so that these
> chartities no longer work for charitable cause, but for donor
> causes. Fscking nym shifting idiots thieving money intended for the poor
> to pay asstroturfers - the lowest forms of money sucking
> scum of the internet. Someone will some day squeal on micoshaft
> for money or out of disgust.
> 
> Martini Taylor that pioneered get the factoid campaign
> should do a get the factoid blog to tell us how he got
> sacked, and all the little asstroturfing networks and their
> funding methodologies to set the records straight.
> 
> 

Now that would be a /very/ interesting blog!

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Q:	What's yellow, and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice?
A:	Zorn's Lemon.

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