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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 01 Jan 2010 14:36 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 31 Dec 2009 23:58 : \____
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>>>>> Okay, the screen is too small for detailed graphical work, and Microsoft
>>>>> will surely roll-out a version of office as quickly as possible with a
>>>>> new file format which only Microsoft can read, which will make life
>>>>> painful for all Blackberry, iPhone and Android users
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft already uses Silver Lie [sic] to cause disruption to such
>>>> devices.
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>>> It's already causing damage, for example, Murdoch's empire has the
>>> rights to cricket TV broadcasting now, so in order to watch cricket, you
>>> either have to buy Sky TV (why would you?) or do pay per view on
>>> t'internet, but you need a silverlight player to do that.
>>>
>>> Essentially, Murdoch has locked out linux users from online cricket.
>>> One would think that Ofcom might have a view on this, but time will
>>> tell.
>>>
>>> Similar debate has been ongoing with the HD broadcasting even by the
>>> BBC, as there was talk of encrypting aspects of that, although I'm not
>>> sure which. The EPG still seems to be a problem on "freesat", too.
>>
>> Murdoch had meetings with Microsoft recently. They plotted an attack on
>> Google.
>
> It ought to be a surprise, but it's not, really. That Bill Gates and
> Rupert Murdoch could combine to continue to extend their respective
> monopolies - Murdoch has 100% of satellite pay TV in the UK, Bill Gates
> has a global monopoly in consumer operating systems and business office
> software.
>
> Note here that the HMG definition of a monopoly is >=50% of a market,
> and both Murdoch and Gates are way ahead of 50% respectively.
>
> A slight side issue - someone suggested here, a couple of years ago,
> that having a monopoly as < 100% didn't make logical sense; this is a
> naive position, since it would mean that just one person, somewhere, not
> running Windows, would mean that MS didn't have a monopoly which they
> were busy abusing...
Bill Gates used Firefox, so...
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