QUOTE(Mol10 @ Jul 12 2006, 06:01 PM)
Bundling WMP prevents competition and hence is not in the free market spirit. The EU is attempting to open up the a/v player market to competition.
No this is diffrent than the issue with MS Word because word was also forsale when it was bundled with Windows. Making them take out WMP would be like telling them they had to many features.
Either way, with either product being bundled, it is not hampering the entrepreneurial spirit. If company comes out with a beter media player, it will be downloaded and used over WMP. I know, atleast for myself, I rarely use WMP unless I can't get a media file to work with some other free MP's I use.
Sounds to me like your one to be favorable to unions where certain people are restriced to doing only certain things, creating tons of pointless jobs, and cash, for people who do not deserve them.
QUOTE(ScHlAuChi @ Jul 12 2006, 08:22 PM)
All you people who say the EU is foolish are the actual fools.
This fine was not because of the bundling with WMP, it was because MSs competitiors wanted crucial documentation about protocols needed to develop software for windows - which MS did not offer to alot of developers. this was an easy way for MS to control the market abusing their monopoly.
And just because the US DOJ was stupid enough to let MS off the hook, does not mean that the EU has to be similar dumb. And finally, maybe im the only one, but a company who owns 230 Billion in money - far far far more than many many 3rd world countries - is incredibly sick. If you would understand eceonomy you would know that MS does not really have to "work" for this money, but someone else had to work for it. So MSs monopoly is removing "buying power" from the average consumer by constantly removing money from the economic cycle.
Think of it that way - you have a limited amout of water in a pond, and a big sponge (MS) is sucking out all the water - leaving less and less for the millions of plankton (YOU).
Anyway - if you guys are STUPID enough not to understand that monopolys are ALWAYS bad for the consumer than im sorry.
To bad you do not know the true facts of this story.
MS was still in its bounds for giving the information to the developers. They had not steped outside the bounds that the judge had put forth.
Also, How can you be as foolish to say that MS does not have to work for their money, but rather, someoen else does? That has got to be the most idiotic illogical slander you have said.
If it was not for Bill Gates innovations, we probably would not even be talking as of now. Mac would most likely be the key technology, but ages behind.
When Bill Gates was fired from Apple, it created a chance for an opposition to the current technology so they could both grow from each other. You must rember that when windows was just being thought of, most people did not think computers would ever become more useful than performing mathematic calculations. Now ofcourse the developement of transistors, resistors, capacitors and dioeds made it possible for computrs to become compact and cheapier, it was not until windows was born that the consumer took true intrest in computers.
And to even sugest that this great development of MS is actually detramental to the economy is absurd.
Do you realise the money that not only companies, but everyday people save because they can accomplish tasks faster with windows?
And I don't need to say anything about your poor analogy.
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