[Am-info] level the playing field

[Lewis A. Mettler]

Sorry. You do not decide how many might want any utility or application.

Neither do you bundle crap in order to force their decision.

IT IS NOT YOUR CHOICE.

IT IS NOT MICROSOFT'S CHOICE EITHER.

You do not decide what anyone must buy.  No body does.

Do you understand that basic principal?

Do you understand that you can buy whatever food you want to eat?

Do you understand that you can buy whatever cloths you want to wear?

Do you understand that you make those decisions for yourself?  (unless
your mother still does)

If you do not know that you decide what you buy, no one can help you.

Joe Moore wrote:
> 
> But you want to break apart (unbundle) disc compression.  How many
> people transfer hard drives between computers running NT, OS/2 and DOS?
> Certainly not a hundred million.  If it were that many, wouldn't Stac
> still be selling its software which can do that (The one bundled with
> the monopoly product can not)?
> 
> What about the other questions?  Particularly, "How will this additional
> cost affect the price of the operating system?"
> 
> What about the suite example?
> 
> --Joe
> 
> "Lewis A. Mettler" wrote:
> >
> > Do you know the difference between "anyone" and say over a hundred
> > million?
> > Joe Moore wrote:
> > > I wonder how to get "their" opinion?  I mean, you know what "they" say.
> > >
> > > Do we have a public opinion poll, "Should drivers for a 3.5" floppy disk
> > > drive be required on every computer [ ]Yes  [ ]No"????  And if anyone
> > > says "No" then it couldn't be involved in a bundle?
> > >
> > > Who pays for this poll?
> > > Who pays for the software creator to pull out the 3.5" floppy driver
> > > from their existing product, just because 3 people in east nowhere don't
> > > have a 3.5" floppy, only a 5.25" floppy?
> > > Who pays for the additional media that you have to buy in order to get
> > > the 3.5" floppy driver?
> > > Who pays for the person who processes the purchase order for that
> > > license to use the 3.5" floppy driver?
> > >
> > > How will this additional cost affect the price of the operating system?
> > >
> > > --Joe
> > >
> > > P.S. Lewis, I'm still waiting for your example of a software suite which
> > > is not a bundle.  Until you can come up with one, the only logical
> > > conclusion is that there are no software suites, only bundles.
> > >
> --
> IBM's vision is apparently to make IBM hardware "scream with Microsoft
> software" --The Register,
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/990927-000003.html
> 
> I have visions of screaming with (at and about) Microsoft software, too.
> 
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-- 
Lewis A. Mettler, Esq.(Attorney and Software Developer)
lmettler@LAMLaw.com
http://www.lamlaw.com/ (detailed review of the Microsoft antitrust
trial)