Re: Cost of the M$ monopoly-$10BIllion/year.

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:50:14 -0500, Jim Polaski
<jpolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> chose to bless us with the following wisdom:

>In article <sv0fe1lu10nac689a3giv6ggsd4fkikh88@xxxxxxx>,
> Mayor of R'lyeh <mayor.of.rlyeh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 27 Jul 2005 05:27:05 -0700, imouttahere@xxxxxxx chose to bless us
>> with the following wisdom:
>>
>> >Mayor of R'lyeh wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:32:47 -0500, Jim Polaski
>> >> <jpolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> chose to bless us with the following wisdom:
>> >>
>> >> >From slashDot,
>> >> >
>> >> >http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/26/1434243&from=rss
>> >> >
>> >> >And follow the link.
>> >>
>> >> Says the people wanting to sell Linux and Unix training services
>> >> anyway.
>> >
>> >One look at MSFT's income statement shows where the fat is, pal.
>> >
>> >In the MRQ, we have $9.6B in sales, with 1/3 of that going to SG&A
>> >(such efficiency!) and another 1/3 to profit. R&D was about equal to
>> >COGS, too, which means MSFT spends almost as much on the box as the
>> >development cost itself.
>> >
>> >Cutting MSFT's SG&A and operating profit by 50% each, like what we
>> >would see with more viable competition, would in fact result in $12B/yr
>> >in savings for MSFT's customers. But being a MSFT buttboy you will
>> >ignore these facts.
>>
>> I don't really care how Microsoft does their internal financials. All
>> I care about is that they are part of the process that provides me
>> with a soution to my needs/wants at a price I want to pay.
>> Now here's some facts that you like to ignore. Apple prices their
>> machines artificially high. They could sell them for significntly
>> lower but choose not in order to foster a 'high class'
>> mirage...er...image around themselves. They've priced themselves out
>> of direct competition with Microsoft. Ditto for Sun.
>> So whine about how mucked up Microsoft's internals are all you want.
>> That's not what's keeping viable competition from forming.
>> There's no excuses anymore. Microsoft has been adjudicated as a
>> monopolist and has been accordingly legally hamstrung.
>> Its time for other platform advocates to grow up and admit that the
>> only thing keeping their platform from being viable competition is
>> their platform and its advocates.
>
>The key part being, "... a soution to my needs/wants at a price I want
>to pay." which accounts for a lot.
>
>You decide what you want to pay for something. That's great.
>What do you tell an automaker when you go to the dealer?
>"I'll only pay $xxxxxx.00 or I won't buy it" Or you look for an auto at
>the price you want to pay and it's always great.

Get back with me when you can talk about computers instead of cars.




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