Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> 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.

It seems you disagree with the federal courts.