Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Gary M. Stewart belched out this bit o'
> wisdom:
>> On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:47:18 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Microsoft pays for it
>>> <http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/o1/leaked-oem-vista-ad-incenteives/>.
>>
>> You are such a fool Schestowitz. Get your slimy self out of
>> academia and into the real world.
Roy opposes corruption, whereas you positively endorse it, so I fail to
see how you can think it's /Roy/ who's "slimy", when it's actually /you/
and your kind who are the living embodiment of slime.
>> Hint:
>>
>> 1. Car manufacturers offer dealers incentives to sell certain cars.
>> 2. Blockbuster/Barnes and noble/Borders etc gets paid extra money
>> and incentives to put certain books on the end caps.
>> 3. Circuit City gets incentives, like advertising, to sell certain
>> products.
>> 4. Your local Deli gets a free freezer from Snapple to sell their
>> products.
>> 5. IBM offers all kinds of incentives for upgrading or installing
>> their software.
>>
>> and so forth.
>>
>> For some reason you think you've discovered the Holy Grail.
>>
>> You haven't. This one ranks right up there with a bogus Terry
>> Porter post.
>
> Not really. Microsoft is presumably still under the microscope due
> to their still-pervasive influence on consumer computing purchaes.
Or IOW neither your local car dealer; BlockBusters; Barnes and Noble;
Circuit City; Snapple; nor even IBM have global monopolies in their
respective markets.
Microsoft does, and they abuse that monopoly to exclude all competition.
A free freezer from Dr Pepper is one thing, since Dr Pepper has very
healthy competition in the form of Coca-Cola, but "incentives" to
further inhibit what little competition they have, from a company like
Microsoft that already has a near-total dominance of the market, is
quite another.
And it's not like Microsoft has even earned the right to this "success"
either, since they attained that monopoly position mostly by stealing
others' products and ideas; sabotaging the competition with FUD spread
by shills and fake "analysts"; and using clandestine MoUs with OEMs to
lock-out any and all competition, whilst locking-*in* those OEMs'
customers to Microsoft's stolen technology.
Now that they /have/ this monopoly, they certainly shouldn't be allowed
to keep it, much less abuse that power to inflict even further damage on
the rest if the industry or (more to the point) /us/, the users.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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