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

[Eric M. Hopper]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:10:23AM -0800, Lewis A. Mettler wrote:
>> 
>>         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).

	I made no comments regarding monopolies or non-monopolies.  The
fact that Microsoft has chosen to be a competition murdering monopoly
indicates that they have chosen the short sighted path.  I didn't say
how short the sight was.  If they were allowed to continue unfettered,
they'd eventually have a bloody revolution on their hands.  It might
take 100 years, but that's what would happen.

> 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.

	Oh, please.  *rolls eyes* An attempt to turn this discussion
into a bundling discussion.  I blocked receiving list mail from you for
a reason.  I took your address out of the Cc line for a reason.  I don't
like listening to people who won't listen to anybody else.

	It looks like I'll have to block personal mail from you too.  I
think I'll set it up so that my mail system bounces it.

	I just did a reject count.  You've sent 110 mesages since
December 14th.  I think that's more than the sum total of all the other
list members combined and doubled.  I would bet that every single letter
says something about bundling too.

*sigh*,
-- 
Its name is Public Opinion.  It is held in reverence. It settles everything.
Some think it is the voice of God.  Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet
broke a chain or freed a human soul.     ---Mark Twain
-- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.mn.org  http://omnifarious.mn.org/~hopper) --