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government causes this with laws that allow microsoft to sue people that create workarounds. telling people what they can do with your product after they purch
by nazgulnarsil 17y ago
government causes this with laws that allow microsoft to sue people that create workarounds. telling people what they can do with your product after they purchase it is silly. why blame MS for simply following the incentives to make money?
- alttab 17y agoGovernment causes this? Or does government allow this? To think Microsoft was sitting on a huge pile of money without lobbying with some of it would be naive at best.
- idm 17y ago...and yet, until the 1990s, Microsoft invested almost nothing in lobbying and political campaigns. Once the antitrust case entered the equation, Microsoft rapidly became interested in influencing government. http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000115 http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000115 1996 contributions: $251,474 1998 contributions: $1,364,821 2000 contributions: $4,628,893
- alttab 17y agoProps to you good sir for getting concrete numbers. While 4 million isn't a lot considering how much they made during those years, it certainly shouldn't surprise anyone. Plus, that's the money that went on the books - not the all expenses paid vacations and under the table proverbial hand jobs. Some would say that lobbying is necessary for the government to know what its people needs - but then again they listen to the LOBBYISTS and not the people who write senators letters. Flawed argument. What a concept.
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- nazgulnarsil 17y agohow exactly would microsoft pursue you without the support of the courts? come to your house with guns? not a good business strategy. they only do this because they can outsource coming to your house with guns to government.