Re: Nation piece

[Pieter Nagel <pieter.nagel@epiuse.co.za>]

  On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Luc-Etienne Brachotte wrote:
  
  > When choosing software/hardware, often people hear good advices from
  > people who know no more ! ill-informed advicing ill-informed, blind
  > conducting blind ! M$ seems to take part of it !
  
  Personally, I would like it it we kept a narrow focus:
  
  Microsoft is on trial, not because of the quality of its software (a
  lot of it *is* good), but because of bussines practices. Microsoft is
  on trial, not because Win NT is less stable than OS/2 or Linux, but
  because of how they market it. Microsoft is on trial, not because
  they are supposedly the root of all evils in the computer world, such
  as consumers making ill-informed choices, but because the are
  illegally leveraging a monopoly.
  
  As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft is free to create and sell any
  quality of software they want to, as long as they don't artificially
  restrict the sales of competitors.
  
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