Re: Offtopic, inappropriate jokes?

[gavin.walker@example.com]

Norman,

Listen to yourself!

> co-conspirator
> maliciously damaging
> evil empire

Pointless inflamatory rhetoric. You're a text book case of why Linux gets a
reputation as a fringe movement instead of a serious OS. It's a shame.

> If buyers got a choice (blah blah blah)

We do have a choice. What's most annoying is that if anyone refuses to make the
choice in the way *you* would prefer, those people are wrong. You're arguing for
freedom of choice, aren't you? OK. I write Java, it runs on Solaris, I develop
on NT. My wife writes C and Java, it runs on mobile devices, she develops on NT.
At home we use a home built, so no tying there, PC running 98. I have a laptop
running NT. We also use Palm and Psion machines. Although we had a Linux machine
at one point, it got shelved due to lack of space in our old apartment. Now we
have space I'm in the process of building a new Linux machine out of an old Sun
workstation. So, although we chose our careers and actively made choices about
our home machines and OSs, to you we're in someway perpetuating an evil. Is this
the case?


Gavin





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Matt Doughty

> I also thought antitrust laws were there to prevent a couple other abuses
> of success:
> 1. using excessive wealth, or profits in other areas to undercut competition
>    without similar resources until they colapse finacially effectively
>    eliminating compentition.
> 2. Using dominance in one area to corner the market in another area
>    (railroads and shipping, or OS and Browser)

And tying, such as refusing to sell a typewriter unless the buyer contracts
to buy ribbons from the same maker, and refusing to sell a computer unless
the buyer contracts to buy an OS from the same maker.  Funny how IBM decided
to comply.

And tying, such as refusing to sell a computer unless the buyer contracts to
buy an OS from the maker's co-conspirator -- in fact usually an excessively
badly broken, maliciously damaging OS even when the buyer might be willing
to tolerate a moderately broken, not particularly damaging OS from the same
co-conspirator.  Funny how makers don't decide to comply.  Funny how an evil
empire has so much control over dozens of makers.  Funny how governments
decide not enforce existing antitrust laws.  Funny how governments decide
not to enforce product liability laws.

If buyers got a choice, just imagine how many Linux vendors would be able to
afford to whip their products into top shape, and how many would have the
incentive to do so.

-- Norman Diamond

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