Microsoft Hatred FAQ berkeleyunix 5160
Not at all. No one is denying anyones right to purssue their own interest. What's being denied is the right to use illegal means to do so. If MS restricted themselves to legal means, no one would have a problem with them.
Nice thought. Unfortunately, the government doesn't work that way. They believe that a practical monopoly is a bad thing, and limit the things such a company can do, and have been known to disbuttemble companies they believe are harming the economy in general.
No, they didn't ask for more than Windows were worth. They tilted the playing field against MS compebreastors by causing consumers to pay MS money for products they didn't receive. In most countries, taking money from unwilling victims without giving them anything in exchange is called "theft".
Sorry, but you're wrong. The government *does* own the econnomy. Who do you think originally created all the money that is flowing through it? The government charges you for the privilege of participating in their economy - it's called "income tax". 2000 years ago Christ knew who owned the economy, and said "Render unto Ceaser that which is Ceasers."
A right is a scope of authority. That is, a sphere within which one's decision is sovereign. That's obviously a complicated...
Sorry, but nobody but the government actually owns property. In most places, you can't make non-trivial changes to "your" property without permission from the government. They even charge you rent on "your" property, only they call it "property tax".
I guess it hasn't sunk in yet that the existence of compebreastion doesn't keep a company from being a monopoly. But it does. Companies that owned less of their market than MS owns of it's market have been broken up. A clbuttic monopoly behavior is to want the compebreastion to survive "just barely", because that gives them leverage in court. Which is why MS has helped out Apple in the past.
The conclusion that the means were illegal is predicated on the definition of the relevent market as...
You sound like an anarchist to me. This wasn't a criminal, this was the government. Lieing to random individuals isn't a crime. Lieing to the government is.
MS has a long history of dancing with the DOJ, and has been repeatedly warned about the legality - or lack thereof - of their behavior. No rational person who knew of that history could expect the law to be applied to MS in any way other than the way it was.
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