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What the Microsoft Breakup Really Means

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Calum:
http://www.zervaas.com/humor/bofh/2000/19.html

 
quote:"Actually, while you're here, do you mind if I ask you a question?"

"By all means!"

"Well I've been reading about this break-up of Microsoft - will any of my programs be affected by it?"

"You mean will the change in the corporate structure of company affect the software made by that company and currently installed on your machine?"

"Yes."

My feelings of remorse disappear quicker than a hardware warranty after clock-chipping and I'm back to normal self.

"Well, it's hard to say. You see, what the ruling in effect means is that Microsoft has become far too powerful and has begun monopolising the market - it's the US government's form of a practical joke really."

"Huh?"

"Well they encourage people to build a big company and pay huge amounts of tax, and yet when they do so, they say it's bad and tell you that you have to break it up to be less competitive."

"But weren't they using unfair business tactics?"
"The term 'business' makes the term 'unfair' redundant in that sentence."

--- End quote ---

psyjax:
"Well they encourage people to build a big company and pay huge amounts of tax, and yet when they do so, they say it's bad and tell you that you have to break it up to be less competitive."


Not quite true, If this were true then a real Monopoly would not be possible. In the US the idea was that the bigger the buisness the more the taxes, the richer you are the more you give back etc.

But usualy taxes are placed on the poor while breaks are given to the rich. M$ pays Jack in taxes.

Kintaro:
Hmm interesting

sporkme:
yep and i am sure that the pentagon is running unix

EDIT:  (that is sarcastic)

"fucking windows 98... get bill gates in here."

-=enter bill=-

you told us windows would be faster and more reliable"

"bb..bb..but it is..."

-=BANG!=-

gotta love that south park classic

[ May 07, 2002: Message edited by: sporkme ]

Kintaro:
South park is a religion... bit like Linux.

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