oldsk00l
01-14-05, 12:50 PM
I really and truely hope you didn't cheer the Microsoft Anti-Trust lawsuits, because you are advocating they do something that would send Mr. Gates right back to court.
You can thank Sun for having Microsofts INFINITLY better JVM permanently removed and discontinued. In the same vein, in Microsoft went to far as to offer any sort of "free" product to WindowsXP users, they would be met with a firestorm not seen since Sodom and Gomorrah.
You're absolutely right on this, if MS started offering AntiSpyware for "free" when it goes final it would be a HUGE controversy. It'd be IE all over again, and we'd hear the "MS is just muscling out other vendors" and "MS is trying to create more monopoly" etc etc etc.
They've put themselves into the position of having to charge, to avoid anti-trust. The only way AntiSpyware could be free is if MS joined the FOSS community with that product. Since FOSS is just as bad for MS as an anti-trust case is...there's only one route.
In all honesty though, for the windows platform I don't mind using it once it goes final. It's a fine product, and given the hordes of crap out there I think this is needed and worth paying for in of itself. The popularity of the windows platform for this kind of garbage sucks though.
You can thank Sun for having Microsofts INFINITLY better JVM permanently removed and discontinued. In the same vein, in Microsoft went to far as to offer any sort of "free" product to WindowsXP users, they would be met with a firestorm not seen since Sodom and Gomorrah.
You're absolutely right on this, if MS started offering AntiSpyware for "free" when it goes final it would be a HUGE controversy. It'd be IE all over again, and we'd hear the "MS is just muscling out other vendors" and "MS is trying to create more monopoly" etc etc etc.
They've put themselves into the position of having to charge, to avoid anti-trust. The only way AntiSpyware could be free is if MS joined the FOSS community with that product. Since FOSS is just as bad for MS as an anti-trust case is...there's only one route.
In all honesty though, for the windows platform I don't mind using it once it goes final. It's a fine product, and given the hordes of crap out there I think this is needed and worth paying for in of itself. The popularity of the windows platform for this kind of garbage sucks though.