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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Porter who wrote (108840)	5/1/2000 2:41:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571931

Then someone in the industry needs to do what AMD did. AMD didn't get the US Government to break up Intel. You don't ask too much, do you? AMD may pull this off....its still a long shot and the jury is still out. My point is that when you stifle competition, opportunities are lost. And when there is no private company which is willing to step up to the plate like AMD did, maybe its the gov't that will have to do the dirty work. You can't blame Microsoft because IBM had no clue with OS/2, and you can't blame Microsoft because Linux is still too hard for most users to use. It's like blaming a doctor because you caught aids during unprotected sex. I don't blame MSFT for dominating the OS industry...IBM faltered, AAPL faltered etc and MSFT took advantage. Where I see the monopoly issue come in to play is when they foisted the original, inferior IE on an unsuspecting public. And when that did not seem to be enough, threatened first to buy AOL and then intimidated AOL into using their browser exclusively. The first IE sucked big time, it could barely read java script at all....because MSFT did not want java/SUNW to rule in that arena. Only recently has the IE started to improve but it still doesn't work right. I had to download a patch for IE 5 to make it functional. I wonder how good IE 5 would be if it had some real competition?!! So much for your good MSFT monopoly! ted