[thisiskubrick]

Don't be an ass. MicroSoft is a business. It's objectives are far different than a governments and thus, gets judged differently.

The US tolerates opinion and encourages freedom. MicroSoft's behavior is anything but tolerant. A very stupid analogy. One that ignores the basis of our political system and the principles of FREE Market economics.

Microsoft COMPETES, and does it well, and that is called free market economics buddy!

Microsoft's job is not to be "tolerant" and give their competitors a break. Sun Micrososystems would love to see Microsoft be "tolerant" and "sensitive"..

Their competitors can't stand Microsoft's success and continuously try to win market share in the courts.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Microsoft COMPETES, and does it well, and that is called free market economics buddy!

Actually, what MicroSoft does is inimical to Free Market Economics as espoused by F. A. Hayek and Friedman, two of the greatest Free Market Economists this country has ever known.
They both hold that monopolies that limit choice are bad for free markets, akin to Socialist government control of resources.
You seem to be telling me you know more than they do. I'm impressed.
Please explain why limiting choice and eliminating competition is good for free markets.
Sounds positively Keynsian.

[Kevin Curry]

Microsoft COMPETES, and does it well . . .

It ceased competing years ago. Now it merely annihilates, engulfs, and devours.

If there were true competition in the operating system world, Microsoft would have collapsed a fortnight after it released Windows ME.