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Point-For-Point With Keir Thomas About Google Chrome OS
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| 3. "Google is big, ergo Google is evil."
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| This deserves its own post and may get one later, but briefly:
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| No, being rich and big does not make you evil. Let's take a big, fat example:
| If they only would quit their illegal anti-competitive monopolistic
| practices, even Microsoft would not be evil. Yes, I said it. I said it in its
| own post here. My whole beef with Microsoft is that I'd just like them to
| leave us all alone. Knock off that antitrust violation and associated nasty
| business - the stuff that's gotten them in trouble in the US, UK, and all
| over the world - and I'd be indifferent to them like any random company.
| Don't forget Bill Gates' 'Open Letter to Hobbyists' here. The free community
| does not have a problem with Microsoft; Microsoft is the one with the problem
| with the free community.
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=point_for_point_with_keir_thomas_about_g&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Recent:
Double-punch for Wintel Duopoly - and Beyond
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| This might have interesting implications for the netbook market, where
| Microsoft is desperately trying to keep manufacturers from offering cheaper
| GNU/Linux models. How it does that could well come under scrutiny by the
| European Commission if there's any hint it is apply pressure unfairly.
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| But beyond that, there's a more subtle point. These fines arise, after all,
| from the abuse of monopoly power. And there are no greater abuses than those
| associated with intellectual monopolies – patents and copyrights. The more
| that the European Commission punishes such monopolies, the sooner, it seems
| to me, it will be forced to confront the worst monopolies – those actually
| backed by its constituent governments. If it wants to make the European
| markets truly fair, and to promote competition, it should not just be hitting
| big, bad companies that bully competitors, but the big, bad system that has
| such bullying at its heart.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2180
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