Microsoft being sued?
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Originally Posted by jasonw,Dec 7 2005, 10:56 AM
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit also holds that Microsoft is a monopoly and has behaved anticompetitively -- that, in fact, it violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. For the most part, the court upheld Jackson's findings of fact, which recounted in voluminous detail how Microsoft abused its control of the market for operating systems to gain market share for its Internet Explorer Web browser, at the expense of Netscape Navigator. To some legal observers, the court's findings of liability on various monopoly power abuse issues constitute a huge defeat for Microsoft, one that may require the software company to appeal immediately to the Supreme Court.
Specifically, the appellate court agreed with the Department of Justice prosecutors and Judge Jackson that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power by forcing computer hardware makers (OEMs) into signing licenses that restricted their rights to preinstall Netscape Navigator, by integrating I.E. into the Windows operating system in such a way as to make it more difficult for Netscape to compete ("commingling" browser code and operating system code, and failing to provide an option to remove Internet Explorer), and by engaging in deals with Internet service providers and other Internet content companies that gave preference to Internet Explorer.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/...crosoft_appeal/
Specifically, the appellate court agreed with the Department of Justice prosecutors and Judge Jackson that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power by forcing computer hardware makers (OEMs) into signing licenses that restricted their rights to preinstall Netscape Navigator, by integrating I.E. into the Windows operating system in such a way as to make it more difficult for Netscape to compete ("commingling" browser code and operating system code, and failing to provide an option to remove Internet Explorer), and by engaging in deals with Internet service providers and other Internet content companies that gave preference to Internet Explorer.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/...crosoft_appeal/
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Originally Posted by exceltoexcel,Dec 7 2005, 11:02 AM
I'll expand on that. In the beginning they built/stole a small petri-dish, no one else stepped up to build one better. Since no other petri dish worked as well people bought and bought and they became THE petri-dish. Then they became the largest petri-dish, maybe through a few questionable ethics but also because no one else made a better one. Now they are the biggest petri-dish because they are so good/popular.
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Originally Posted by Gink5,Dec 7 2005, 11:08 AM
Yea that case was BS. I guess it would be wrong for honda to install honda radios.
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Originally Posted by jasonw,Dec 7 2005, 11:11 AM
Too bad you weren't their lawyer. I'm sure you could have saved them $3/4B with that argument.
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[QUOTE=exceltoexcel,Dec 7 2005, 11:15 AM] Without a doubt, those courses would be great for someone that doesn't have a clue about such things, even me, I don't dabble too much in that area of things but you'll find in real life the problems are much more complex then what you are learning now.
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Originally Posted by no_really,Dec 6 2005, 07:20 PM
There are patches released for *nix products almost daily.
The vast majority of Windows problems come from the stupid decision to make the web broswer and email cliet part of the operating system. That was the key to driving Netscape out od business, but it gave eberybody in the world who could write html or send an email direct access to your OS. Idiotic.
When you couple that with the fact that many more clueless users use Windows than Unix, you have made a system which is more vulnerable to hacking and more vulnerable to attacks based on user ignorance and social conditioning.
Any OS can be defeated by its own sysadmin, and in the PC world we are all our own sysadmins.
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Originally Posted by mikegarrison,Dec 7 2005, 11:27 AM
The vast majority of Windows problems come from the stupid decision to make the web broswer and email cliet part of the operating system. That was the key to driving Netscape out od business, but it gave eberybody in the world who could write html or send an email direct access to your OS. Idiotic.