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It's interesting that you don't make assumptions about future "evil" behaviour of their competition.
by jevgeni 11y ago
It's interesting that you don't make assumptions about future "evil" behaviour of their competition.
- simoncion 11y agoWhy is it interesting? The topic is Microsoft and Microsoft's past and present behavior. While it is next to impossible to truly consider a topic in a vacuum, it is very common practice to focus on a particular single topic or set of topics when engaging in discussion. This practice tends to promote productive discussion by allowing the conversants to momentarily disregard issues that are largely or completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
- jevgeni 11y agoSo, where's the criteria how the subject is constrained? Why are we talking about Microsoft and not the particular responsible Microsoft business division?
- simoncion 11y ago> Why are we talking about Microsoft and not the particular responsible Microsoft business division? Because -as the US DoJ inquiry showed us- Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior has been a strategy that was pursued because of directives from C-level employees. Historically, it hasn't been low-to-mid-level minions spontaneously deciding to do great violence to the computer industry, it has been directives (either express or implied) from the top that caused them to behave in this way.