[Am-info] 'Big Guns' Weigh In On Microsoft Case

[Sujal Shah]

On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 07:15 PM, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
[SNIP]

 > In comments released by the Association for Competitive Technology 
(ACT), the
> former White House officials  said the remedy proposed by the nine 
> states that
> have refused to accept the settlement "would effectively destroy  the 
> Windows
> standard."
>
> =======
>
> Excuse me, exactly when was Windows declared "standard?"  Like the 
> meter, the
> kilogram, the degree fahrenheit, etc ...?
>

Another response to ACT might be, "That's the point, stupid."  The 
entire point is to damage (destroy is too strong for an objective 
remedy) the Windows standard, precisely because it isn't a "standard," 
but a monopoly maintained through illegal means.  The point of the case 
is that the "standard" might have crumbled if consumers were allowed to 
have a choice in their operating systems and related software.

Sujal

[SNIP]
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