[clug] Re: Bing use by Linux enthusiasts

[Kim Holburn]

Couldn't be bothered replying before.  Only replying now because I  
found this page:
Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/06/coolsearchengines

Lots of competition here eh?


On 2009/Jun/23, at 2:01 AM, Hugh Fisher wrote:

> Kim Holburn wrote:
>> Yes, as a matter of fact I think it does.  The company is a  
>> convicted monopolist.  It uses technical tricks to lock out server  
>> competition, Office software competition, illegal licensing deals  
>> and enforced bundling to lock out other operating systems - we can  
>> see that happening right now with netbooks.  So yes it does matter.
>
> Here are a few more things you shouldn't be using either:

That's just silly, only two of those companies have on-going monopoly  
cases.  The others are ancient history and they were found guilty in  
many cases of things that are no longer relevant to us today or were  
US specific.

Both the intel and MS cases are pretty serious in that they have  
seriously nobbled the competition world-wide and are still actively  
doing it.


> C: programming language created by convicted monopolist AT&T
>
> SQL: database language created by convicted monopolist IBM
>
> setuid programs: patented by convicted monopolist AT&T
>
> PowerPC servers: patented by convicted monopolist IBM
>
> Netbooks with Atom CPUs: patented by convicted monopolist Intel
>
> 	cheers,
> 	Hugh
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