Duke,
Why not??? It's proprietary to Sun and Sun hasn't
been declared a monopoly by the FED and Sun hasn't
been found to have engaged in price-fixing with
their competitors.
MSFT is writing an O/S for a piece of hardware they
don't own and is public domain. My contention is
that this is reason enough for the PC O/S to be
public domain as well.
MSFT could have avoided this situation had they not
engaged in predatory business practices while holding
a monopoly in PC O/S's for so many years. They could
have spun off separate apps & O/S companies, they
could have not sold apps, they could have donated
their O/S to a standards body & still sold apps,
they could have kept the O/S & the apps but published
the source to the O/S & api's, thus giving non-licensed
competitors in the apps market a fair shake, they could
have gone out of their way to make sure there was
no appearance of impropriety with such an obvious
conflict-of-interest they had.
Instead, they got greedy and the predation actually
got worse, and on a grander scale as time progressed.
Now they are going to have to pay the price. Somehow,
someway, they are going to pay, Duke. The only question
left is "how much", not "if".
cheers,
cherylw |
