[Fwd: Re: [Am-info] US warns EU against Microsoft anti-trust moves]

[Joe Barr]

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Subject: Re: [Am-info] US warns EU against Microsoft anti-trust moves
From: Joe Barr <warthawg@austin.rr.com>
To: Roy Bixler <rcb@bix.org>
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There may be monopolies that are good for consumers.  But they are not
like Microsoft: predatory, unregulated, dishonest.  They are allowed to
earn a small return on their risk-free enterprise, not to rape and
pillage and take whatever appeals to them in total disregard of the law.

A monopoly like Microsoft stifles innovation and chills the industry as
a whole.  Consumers lose greatly when there is no competition to spur
real research and development.  And please don't confuse the MS budget
item labeled R&D as being that.  MS R&D covers theft of IP, industrial
espionage, recruiting grass roots support in the press, spying on
customers to see whose record keeping is bad enough to make it worth
their while to force them to pay up for a second time, and honing the
lie of the day to give it some kind of a technical truth to perch upon.

The unregulated MS monopoly produces third rate product - Windows is a
piece of shit in every release - and charges a premium for it.=20
Consumers do not benefit from a viral incubator or a false sense of
security.  Consumers do not benefit from a platform where rebooting is
the most common cure.  Consumers pay out the ass for bug fixes.=20
Consumers cannot get competent technical support.  And they pay for the
privelege.








On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 18:42, Roy Bixler wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:08:58PM -0400, Erick Andrews wrote:
> > "Mr James said US courts had established that monopoly leveraging=20
> > actually benefits consumers, who can enjoy better service and consisten=
t
> > quality."
> >=20
> > Well excuse me.  I must have missed those decisions by US Courts.
> > Anyone know which ones and their relevance to this MS case?
>=20
> Even if you could find such US court decisions, since when does their
> jurisdiction extend to Europe?  With bombastic rhetoric like
> "monopolies are good for consumers" (maybe, but what about
> entrepreneurs and the economy in general?) and "companies that
> dominate one market are allowed to use that dominance to give them an
> advantage in adjacent markets" (which, by the way, seems to directly
> contradict the Sherman Antitrust Act), he expects to find common
> ground?  It seems they have a different view of antitrust in Europe
> and I think he will find another of those "cultural differences"
> waiting for him.  He probably will have a chilly reception to his
> quaint notion that Europe should be bound by US court decisions too.
>=20
> > It would appear Mr James would do away with the DOJ's Antitrust
> > division.
>=20
> He is definitely trying to dispose of the Microsoft antitrust case as
> if it had never been filed.
>=20
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> Roy Bixler <rcb@bix.org>
> A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
>                 -- Ziggy
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