mgrt67
join:2002-03-04
Oak Lawn, IL | Reality check It's really annoying when I read people saying Microsoft is monopolistic, greedy and how they crush their competition. The whole idea of the business world is that exact concept. Beat your competition. Wake up from your fairy tale dream land. 99% of every company out there would gladly crush their competition and take their business if they could. That’s how a free enterprise system works. Companies are out to make money and be successful. Why fault Microsoft for being one of the best at doing that? If you don’t like them then use one of the alternatives that are out there. Just stop whining about it. |
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| They broke the law and were convicted in a court. Is that how a free enterprise system works?
In general I agree with much of what you say. I am absolutely a capitalist. But capitalism is not perfect and it's not an all-or-nothing false dichotomy. You can have plenty of rough and tumble capitalism and STILL have laws in place to punish rank abuse and monopoly. Monopoly PREVENTS competition, it is most definitely not pro-capitalist. |
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 morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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said by mgrt67:
It's really annoying when I read people saying Microsoft is monopolistic, greedy and how they crush their competition. The whole idea of the business world is that exact concept. Beat your competition. Wake up from your fairy tale dream land. 99% of every company out there would gladly crush their competition and take their business if they could. That’s how a free enterprise system works. Companies are out to make money and be successful. Why fault Microsoft for being one of the best at doing that? If you don’t like them then use one of the alternatives that are out there. Just stop whining about it.
damn. the world isn't so black and white! stop whining about people thinking less rigidly that you are. |
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The whole idea of the business world is that exact concept. Beat your competition.
Seeing as you obviously don't understand what you are saying, perhaps I should paraphrase it for you?
The point of softball is to beat the other team. So how can you be sure that you will beat the other team? All you have to do is murder them all in their sleep, that way they don't show up and forfeit the match to you! Now, sure you don't condone this methodology, if nothing else, it is illegal. Instead of murdering them, the 'correct' way to win (or perhaps the way that the creator of softball intended you to win is a better explenation) was you to be the better softball team, by practicing & becoming the better team.
If you've read Terry Goodkind, it can be summed up by the Wizard's 8th Rule : Deserve to win.
Instead of creating better products (the way the inventor of capatalisim intended it - becoming the better team) and hence gaining dominant market share (wining) microsoft bundled their products (IE, Media Player, OE, et al) with their operating system, and hence give them an unfair advantage, whereby the opposition is unable to compete (in the softball example, because one cannot play post-humously)
If microsoft wants to make superior products & rule the marketplace because they Deserve to win, I don't have any objection to that. |
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