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____/ chrisv on Friday 11 Dec 2009 18:26 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>____/ Marti van Lin on Friday 11 Dec 2009 05:08 : \____
>>>
>>> What else do you expect? Only a remorseless bald faced liar is suitable
>>> for the TE job. They are paid to spread lies and misinformation after all.
>>>
>>> A integer (ethical) person is unable to do that job. His or her
>>> conscience would be a "handicap".
>>>
>>> Like all their fellow criminals they have to justify their crimes.
>>
>>They actually believe what they write, but they are deluded due to lies
>>Microsoft feeds them.
>
> Well, it's easy for people to delude themselves, and on a number of
> levels.
>
> "Customers overwhelmingly 'choose' our product - it must be good."
>
> "No one is being hurt."
>
> "The Microsoft ecosystem provides gainful employment to a lot of
> people."
>
> Etc, etc.
>
> What these rationalizations fail to consider is that people *are*
> being hurt. Lack of healthy competition always, always, ALWAYS
> results in a product which is sub-optimal and over-priced.
>
> It may be that each individual Microsoft customer pays "only a little"
> more than what they should and that Windows' quality and performance
> is "only a little" worse than what it should be. This is what makes
> the problems so easy to overlook. But when these problems are
> multiplied by the *hundreds of millions* of installations, they add-up
> to a significant, and unfair, burden on society - overwhelming the
> "positives" like those well-paying jobs.
>
> The Microsoft Corp has negative net-worth to society.
Politicians use the exact same tactics.
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