[Am-info] Corel serves up Windows apps on Linux?

[Lewis A. Mettler]

Eric,

"Eric M. Hopper" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 12:35:00AM -0500, Erick Andrews wrote:
> >
> > IMNSHO it would be more ethically respectful for many companies to
> > clarify their mission statements to make it clear whether their core
> > business...and their employees...are more important -- or whether
> > their stockholders and officers' remunerations are more important.
> > Ah, but we know, they lie.
> 
>         I think many companies have lost sight of an important truth.
> Making money by focusing on making money is short sighted.  Money should
> be used as a scorecard detailing how well you're satisfying customer
> needs.  In the long run, that will make you more money than focusing on
> making money will.

This is only true if the market if fair and open.  It is not true for
Microsoft or for any market it engages in (except for possibly those
where it is failing because competition does exist).

You do not understand monopoly power.  Monopoly power (a single seller)
prevents consumers from having any input at all in the marketplace. 
Re-read the little story about Bill Gates trying to buy Windows without
IE.  Even Bill Gates (with a few bucks) is completely powerless in the
consumer OS market.

100% of the consumers do not buy IE because they picked it.  They buy it
because Microsoft is forcing them to buy it.

-- 
Lewis A. Mettler, Esq.(Attorney and Software Developer)
lmettler@LAMLaw.com
http://www.lamlaw.com/ (detailed review of the Microsoft antitrust
trial)