____/ Mike on Thursday 15 November 2007 05:11 : \____
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:11:28 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> A year or two ago, Ballmer expressed his fear of Linux by saying that
>> Linux is a competition that is not a company. He didn't know how to
>> defeat it.
>
> This is really a very sad commentary when you consider that it's coming
> from the top exec at one of the largest corporations in the country.
> Never even considered the notion of doing a better job of serving the
> consumer than the competition, no that's a completely foreign concept to
> these monopoly-centric morons at msft. One needs to examine a very basic
> question here: why does a corporation exist? The answer should be: to
> maximize benefit for the society which it serves. Normally, competitive
> markets yield this result for the consumer, but in the case of a monopoly
> this does not occur and the net value to society is negative. This is of
> course why there is antitrust regulation, however, as none of it has been
> enforced against msft what has evolved is a highly counterproductive
> corporation run by robber barons which do nothing but try to destroy
> those entities which are actually trying to do a better job of serving
> the consumer. So while in the long run all monopolies are eventually
> destroyed, in the mean time until that happens it sure is painful having
> to put up with the likes of gates, ballmer & co.
Intel does the same thing to defeat AMD, but that's another story which I try
very, very hard to keep out of c.o.l.a. because it's off topic.
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