Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] My comments on the MS anti-trust trial

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> A few years ago I submitted my comments to the DOJ on their anti-trust 
> settlement.  It finally appeared on the web!
>
> http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_register&docid=MTC-00023919

Interesting.  I'll give you another reason why unchecked power is very bad 
for business:  Once competition has been squashed, one might think that 
there is simply no incentive for the monopoly to provide a better product. 
That is true, but I think it is actually much worse than that in the case 
of a software company like Microsoft.  They are actually rewarded for 
providing lower quality.  The reason is that their only competition will 
be the next release of their own program, so in order to help themselves 
to sell their software in the future, they have to sell you bad software 
today.  Think about yourself in their shoes and the strategy becomes 
pretty obvious.


By the way, either you gave them the wrong URL or they messed it up: 
there needs to be a tilde before "stephen," like so:

http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/

Mike

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