[luau] NEWS: E-Mexico favors Windows over Linux

[Ronnie T Livingston]

I read in money magazine article recently that MS has 50 billion dollars
cash on hand.  Thats a lot of cash!

-Ronnie

When facts are few, experts are many.  -Donald R.Gannon

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Joe Linux wrote:

> This is a huge problem.  Mandrake has reported in their newsletter that
> many times they have been on the verge of a big deal and then M$ jumps
> in to screw it up.  I know years ago even before the advent of Linux
> that I was told that M$ had so much money that the situation was very
> scary.  They had the financial power to easily buy off politicians.  I
> put a lot of the blame on Apple because Apple refused to license their
> system to anyone else and that's really what killed any competition
> within the OS market for many years.
>
> The thing of it is companies have been buying their way into markets
> from the beginning of time.  Coca-Cola always made sure their soft drink
> was sold at sporting events and so forth.  Steinway paid artists to play
> their pianos on the concert stage.  So this isn't all that unusual or
> even unfair, but it's very clear that M$ is a monopoly out of control.
>  I consider it my civic duty to not use any M$ product when there is a
> viable alternative.