Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?

Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T wrote:

> MS has always been modular. (Though MS if you check has never ever 
> truly designed a piece of software originally) All his products 
> started out at other companies and was bought from floundering 
> companies for pennies on the dollar and then he brought in people to 
> fix bugs and patch.

Sounds like marketing genius to me...

> He tried the same tack with Apple computer. But when his lawyers 
> discussed the possibility of MS being broken up into pieces like AT&T 
> because he would be running a monopoly He backed off on that, for a 
> while. He may try again when he gets a government what can repeal the 
> law that prevents monopolys

The only true monopolies are those that have government support. Free 
markets do not support monopolies by their very nature. IOW the only 
good monopoly is one that the government establishes precisely because 
the government has the one true monopoly, that on the use of force. 
Nobody forces you to use any of Gates' stuff. Go get Linux or some other 
OS. Buy a Mac, whatever. Mr. Bill has no monopoly and never will.
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