Re: OT Bill Gates tells senators "we need more foreign programmers to remain competitive"

"Schrodinger's cat" <martin scotland.org> wrote:

"John Doe" <jdoe usenet.love.invalid> wrote in message


I dont pirate software. I buy it.

And the cow jumps over the moon.

Maybe it does, but none of my copies of Windows XP and Mandriva
are paid for.

I have a sneaking suspicion that my labour doesn't come any
cheaper than yours.

You have a big ego for such small arguments.

I feel my arguments are sucking up well to Bill Gates.

We produce the vast majority of intellectual property. Most other
countries watch our entertainment too. I know that for a fact
because I have collected Internet TV stations, so I know what
kind of television other countries watch.

How would you say the quality of the BBC's output compares to the
US alternatives? You have heard of the BBC right?

How many major motion pictures did the BBC produce last year?


You bang on about "Johnny foreigner" pirating software

Which is true.

Yup. And you bang my mother when you're hard up too.

and in virtually the same paragraph you criticise MS for selling
cheaper versions of Windows in poor regions of the world.

That's true also.

whilst my mother is moaning about people from the same regions
fondling it.

The bottom line is that Microsoft Windows and Office is a cash
cow monopoly duo.

MS is a very profitable company and it is alleged that they use
their strong position in ways which restrict competition.

Only a radical wearing blinders wouldn't have seen that, even before
the United States federal appeals court wrote:

"...we uphold the District Court's finding of monopoly power in its
entirety."

"The District Court found that the restrictions Microsoft imposed in
licensing Windows to OEMs prevented many OEMs from distributing
browsers other than IE."

"Microsoft's primary copyright argument borders upon the frivolous.
The company claims an absolute and unfettered right to use its
intellectual property as it wishes: "If intellectual property rights
have been lawfully acquired," it says, then "their subsequent
exercise cannot give rise to antitrust liability." That is no more
correct than the proposition that use of one's personal property,
such as a baseball bat, cannot give rise to tort liability."

"In sum, we hold that with the exception of the one restriction
prohibiting automatically launched alternative interfaces, all the
OEM license restrictions at issue represent uses of Microsoft's
market power to protect its monopoly, unredeemed by any legitimate
justification. The restrictions therefore violate section 2 of the
Sherman Act."


Amazing really,

I'm glad you found that enlightening.


I'm not suggesting that the richest person is the cleverest. I'm
suggesting that Bill Gates is better looking than my mother. I
stand by that statement.

It's a good argument IMO.







Regards

Martin






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