[clug] Re: Bing use by Linux enthusiasts

[Kim Holburn]

On 2009/Jun/30, at 9:36 AM, Hugh Fisher wrote:
> Kim Holburn wrote:
> 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.
>
> So you would have boycotted AT&T and IBM back when C/SQL/etc first
> came out but not now? Fair enough.

The AT&T case AFAIK was about a telephone monopoly in the US.  The IBM  
case about a monopoly on mainframes.  Neither really relevant to their  
monopoly cases.  Those cases were not much to do with that software  
and certainly not now.  Microsoft is trying to use things like bing to  
get into the search market.  It will probably try and use it's desktop  
monopoly somehow.

>> 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.
>
> So you refuse to use Intel CPUs, and encourage others to do likewise?

No, I have used computers based on lots of different chips.  I'm just  
sad that it's nearly all x86 now.  When there's reasonable competition  
I might.  When would that be?  Intel has it pretty sewn up now don't  
you think?  The amount of money required to break into that market is  
phenomenal.  Add the difficulty of getting software to work on a new  
chip and the software lag.

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