Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5165

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:52:38 -0700, David Schwartz

You keep saying that, as if people could do their word processing and run their financial accounting software on the micro-controllers of microwave ovens or the computer in their car engine.

The market of desktop PC is a perfectly obvious and natural market. You are the one insisting on arbitrarily lumping together who knows what other products in with the desktop PC. I say "who knows" for a reason -- the only two examples you have come up with were Apple Macintoshes and desktop PCs running Linux (both less than 5% of the market *now*, and even less back when the court was investigating Microsoft). Making your position even more bizarre, both of these products were recognised by the court as part of the market in question, both were recognised as potential competing products put at risk due to Microsoft's illegal behaviour.

You don't know what the word monopoly actually means in either law or economics, do you? What you have written is a perfectly grammatical sentence that makes no sense whatsoever. If OSes are monopolies, then they are NOT interchangeable -- but you state in the very next sentence that they are.

Try telling that to a business that needs to do computerised book-keeping of wages and payroll.

-- Steven.