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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (108571)4/30/2000 2:40:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (4) of 1571899
 
Jozef,
RE:This is where we disagree. Please explain how I as a consumer was hurt. This is the weakest link of the case, and I believe hurting consumers is a necessary condition to a claim that a company violated anti-trust laws.

Did you ever notice how the cost of the OS has crept up over time? The same goes for the application suite(office).
We have seen computer prices fall but not the OS and Apps....they have risen in just the monopolistic way you deny. MSFT did this intentionally and tied the sale of a system to the OS to prevent you from buying a system less OS so you could install Linux, Unix or Be etc....which you can now do.
By definition making a consumer pay more for an item is 'hurting' them, MSFT stabbed them in the wallet.
It makes no difference that the system price fell by a larger amount, more than offsetting the OS increases...we should have had both. It now costs less for MSFT to make and sell the OS than it did in the DOS days, the book is far smaller and it is on CD which is a lot cheaper than floppies and the increase in volume has made the development costs per copy fall as well even as they have increased in aggregate. MSFT has a functional monopoly of the OS market place. Linux, Be, etc are not ready to compete in the goon market although they are accepted well in the guru niches. Linux is hampered by the serious lack of applications compared with Winx, but this is changing and if the DOJ makes certain code publicly available then the linux apps will dramatically increase and linux will begin a real assault. Linux should be a capable contender in 2 years if the DOJ's will be done. If not, a long slow climb.

Bill
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