[Am-info] More propaganda

[madodel@ptdprolog.net]

Hehehe.  I guess with enough money one can buy any opinion one wants.  Can
m$ explain why developers have to re-write software everytime microsoft
comes out with a new version?


Mark

In <200204121348.g3CDmfoK092465@silver.ttlc.net>, on 04/12/02 at 09:48 AM,
   "Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net> said:

>If I were to guess, Billie Boy & Co. have bought some more whitespace and
>new dunderheads to fill with twaddle.

>http://www.businesstoday.com/business/business/beac04122002.htm

>===================================================
>Study: Mass. will lose millions in settlement 

>Friday, April 12, 2002

>Massachusetts software developers and consumers will lose millions under
>a proposed antitrust remedy against Microsoft Corp. (Chart), according to
>a study by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University.

>The plan offered by Attorney General Tom Reilly and his counterparts in
>eight other states that Microsoft offer stripped-down versions of its 
>Windows operating system means software developers will spend an extra $3
>billion writing different versions of their programs  during the next
>three years.

>Those extra costs are passed on to consumers who will pay at least $625
>million more to get features such as instant messaging, audio players and
> browsers, the report said.

>Small software firms will be hit the hardest, according to the report.

>But Reilly said promoting free competition among computer companies is
>his intent.

>``The free market, not Microsoft, should decide the fate of new products
>and emerging technology,'' he said yesterday. ``This case is about
>restoring  competition and greater consumer choice, and invigorating the
>high-tech  economy.'' Massachusetts joined eight other states in
>requiring Microsoft  to go beyond an antitrust agreement the corporation
>reached with the  U.S. Department of Justice. All of the states serve as
>homes to companies  competing against Microsoft.

>The institute report said the states are inviting chaos by pursuing the 
>Microsoft antitrust issue separately from the Department of Justice.
>===================================================



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