____/ Linonut on Tuesday 15 January 2008 22:55 : \____
> * [H]omer peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx spake thusly:
>>
>>> <Quote>
>> [...]
>>> Opera is asking the European Commission to obligate Microsoft to
>>> unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative
>>> browsers pre-installed on computers....
>>> </Quote>
>>>
>>>
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2008/tc20080114_194423.htm
>>
>> What /everyone/ should be asking is for *Windows* itself to be unbundled
>> from OEM systems:
>>
>> http://www.globalisation.eu/publications/unbundlingmicrosoftwindows.pdf
>>
>> That would be the /most/ benefit to competition.
>
> Indeed.
It would also encourage Microsoft to make installers that are as friendly as
those you find in GNU/Linux distributions. You know, without having to run all
over the Web for drivers...
People will tell you that unbundling is scary because people can't install an
O/S. That's right... that can't install /WINDOWS/ because it's pretty damn
hard. Compare that to something like Ubuntu.
> It will not happen anytime soon, though.
>
> A walk through Best Buy today has me convinced of that.
>
> There is too much money to be made, even by the hardware vendors, by
> having a single-vendor market where it's all Microsoft software.
>
> I think it sucks, but that's the way it is, at Best Buy and Office
> Depot in America.
America will be last to adopt Free software and the same goes for unbundling.
Forget about America for now. It's too corrupted to allow real competition (no
offence intended).
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