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| Time: 14:06 EST/19:06 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Viper | ||
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Here's a petition to voice the opinion of many consumers in reference to the Department of Justice case against Microsoft. The initiator of the petition, Adrian Latinak, reports "I personally feel that, as a consumer, they are not looking out for our best interest and just wasting our hard earned tax-dollars. Lets tell the DOJ how we feel, as they say they are doing this case to supposedly stop harm to US the consumer." Be sure to sign this petition! | ||
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| #1 By 135 (Unknown) at 8/19/2001 9:29:00 PM |
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Interesting comment, #4. But I'm afraid your attitude scares me quite a bit.
I'm really not interested in a government which refuses to listen to the citizenry because they think they "know better." I've been watching the computer field for the past 20 years, and it's only been in the last 5... a period of noted Microsoft monopolism, that innovation has flourished. A large part of the reason for the innovation has been the commoditizing of hardware, which was only possible because of the disconnect between the OS vendor and the hardware vendors. The world Microsoft's competitors want to go to is back to proprietary hardware with a proprietary OS. We already know that didn't result in innovation, and it sure didn't help me as a consumer. Now this is not to say that I don't think Microsoft has done some things which were heavy handed. But... and this is the important BUT... If the DOJ is going to resolve this case, I want it to do so in a manner which is beneficial to the consumer. Notice my choice of words... "beneficial to the consumer". That's important, because what I hear people talking about is not a solution that's beneficial to the consumers, but rather one that is beneficial to Microsoft's competitors. The reason I'm using Microsoft is because their competitors rejected my needs/wants/desires. Why the hell would I want to be forced to go back? A pro-consumer solution will likely result in a slap on the wrist for Microsoft and a set of regulations that apply to the entire industry. Pre-announcing products would be limited, clear guidelines on bundling, etc. The computer industry is in need of quite a variety of regulations that they have for the longest time gotten away with. Uniform ways of measuring screen display size, storage size, etc. are also needed, even if they don't apply to MS per say. |
| #2 By 135 (Unknown) at 8/20/2001 2:40:00 AM |
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The original IBM PC wasn't particularly innovative. The Mac was interesting, but the Amiga was a far better computer.
I will say this, from '82-'88 there was quite a bit of innovation, but from '88 until '95 the computing world pretty much stood still. While the development of the internet had little to do with Microsoft, the popularity certainly did. Win95 included a web browser as part of the Plus! Pack. Oh what else. Netscape died because of their own incompetence. Microsoft began bundling a browser with the OS back in 1996 with the release of Win95 OSR1 or somesuch, as well as NT4. But IE did not exceed Netscape in marketshare until well into 1998 after IE4 had been out for a while, and Netscape had shown they were inept at creating a quality product. I'm afraid you are wrong. The Microsoft competition, primarily Apple, Sun, etc. only pay lip service to what you claim. They want to go back to the day when you bought your OS and hardware from one vendor, and were locked in. Don't believe me? Check out Apple and Sun's offerings today. What do you get? Proprietary hardware and vendor lock-in of a far worse situation than anything Microsoft has done. I guess what bothers me about this, as well as the response from #6 is just how out of touch people are with the real Microsoft situation. #6 wants the government to protect us from ourselves, because we were clearly incapable of realizing that IE 5.0 was a better browser than any crap made by Netscape. Despite an overwhelming load of evidence to the contrary, you still continue to espouse this lie that Microsoft bundling IE killed Netscape. I don't need the government, or people like yourself who are clearly ignorant of the industry to babysit me. |
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