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To: Last Visible Dog

Free products like Firefox keeps Interent Explorer free.

It's good to have a big American software corporation to compete against the rest of the world. If Microsoft were owned by anyone else and had as huge a monopoly, then I would want and demand more competition. If other countries could hold a monopoly over anyone else, with like let's say oil, then they would make others pay through the nose. I guess that's how OPEC treats Europe. Thus, it's good to have an American Microsoft. Knowing that it's good and important to have a big American Corporation that exerts so much influence, I can understand more and more why anti-Americans (like American ultra-leftists) absolutely hate Microsoft even though Bill Gates is a solidly left-of-center guy in politics.


44 posted on 01/04/2005 5:03:47 PM PST by SaltyJoe ("Social Justice" begins with the unborn child.)
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To: SaltyJoe
Free products like Firefox keeps Interent Explorer free.

I don't agree. Content is king - Microsoft knows this. The browser is merely a delivery device for content. People pay for content, not the browser.

It's good to have a big American software corporation to compete against the rest of the world.

Staffed by Indians in Bangalore.

If Microsoft were owned by anyone else and had as huge a monopoly, then I would want and demand more competition.

In a free world, one does not "demand" competition - one creates competition.

I can understand more and more why anti-Americans (like American ultra-leftists) absolutely hate Microsoft even though Bill Gates is a solidly left-of-center guy in politics.

Yeah...and people love to hate the big winner (especially people that rarely win)(I am not directing that at you)

64 posted on 01/04/2005 5:35:47 PM PST by Last Visible Dog
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