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

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> 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/

I suspect that their text processing removed it.



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