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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)

"Content is king - Microsoft knows this."

Okay, except that I wager one American dollar that if there weren't any other Internet browsers for the web, then it would be very very tempting for Microsoft to sell IE at a price for more than free.

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

Staffed by Indians in Bangalore. The same way our golf courses are staffed by Hispanics (HA, I can say it! I'm Hispanic!). Hey, buddy, whatever brings the brains too us. And praise God, they DO come to us (U.S.) and I work with them as brother fellow human beings.

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

No argument there, I must have used the wrong word. "Create" is better than "demand". Thank you.

"people love to hate"

Love and hate are very defined definitions and volumes can be written on both. I think the hate we're both talking (and agreeing) about is hate born of envy. It's hard to argue that Microsoft's success is bad for America. How can it be anything but good? Could it be better? Sure. But is Microsoft bad for America? No. Does it outsource? Yes, just like most to all other successful American ventures.

So, whatever is good for America is obviously bad for anti-Americans. Since you could probably prove better than I that ultra-liberals are both anti-American and bad for America, then it's not far off to surmise that they enviously hate any American success...like Bill Gates and Microsoft.