Bruce Chambers said:
For the purposes of this discussion, certainly. I've no practical way of
knowing whether Alias posted links to relevant court decisions or to his
favorite gazpacho recipes. On-line translators are virtually useless,
except for translating the occasional single word or short phrase, and
this discussion hardly warrants the expenditure of personal funds, only to
learn that he may have taken a page out of his hero's book and posted
something completely irrelevant.
Depends upon one's perspective.
What, you think only the US has the major market of the world, or do you not
read news events, or follow trends. Looking out of your window and
pretending there's nothing there, is no way to live life. Or maybe you need
to stop looking out of (a) Window(s).
Only enough to recognize this claim as utterly false.
LOL, you really don't follow news, or did you not read where S. Korea is
thinking of dumping the US dollar as the currency of choice, since the
dollar value is waning, and how do you think that would affect the US
deficit, which is supported and funded by foreign governments that buy US
treasury debt. China even hinted it may dump a good chunk of the US treasury
notes, and that country funds 60% of out deficit buying our money (our
biggest creditor). S. Korea supports 12% of our deficit (our 5th largest
creditor).
Lest, we do something about the deficit, it may kill us economically.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aLfGDbdOE.Ew&refer=home
Read relevant links here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/22/34834/2177
Microsoft settled, for now, true. But don't expect the trend to continue
indefinitely. The farther down the road of negating the intellectual
property rights of software developers the EU goes, the fewer companies
there will be that will be willing to give away the products of their
labors. And such European court decisions rather tend to prove my point:
if European companies were able to compete with Microsoft on a technical
level, they wouldn't need to resort to the courts to keep themselves in
business.
LOL, MS has the market of the world Bruce, or do you not see that, and they
use there marketing tactics, as the EULA for one thing, as a means to keep
that share. MS needs to think about what would happens if countries decided
that they are too monopolistic, and let another have its way, no matter the
cost. I actually think that Europe is giving MS a chance to foster real
competition, because if MS add-ons were so great, people wouldn't be asking
for other choices, now would they?
Oh, we have our fringe political parties that are trying to follow the
European model of erasing all individual rights, freedoms and
responsibilities, and placing every decision in the hands of the
government. Fortunately, they're not making very much progress here, as
yet.
You use the term "fringe" incorrectly here, but I take it you ascribe to
simplistic mainstream thinking, and are limited to anything that may foster
good change. Countries in Europe do have strict laws protecting individual
rights, freedoms, etc, whereas here, they are being stripped on almost a
daily basis, with little or no protection of privacy from our own
government. We have so much religion dictating what government should allow
and disallow here, it should just be called a theocarcy instead of
Democracy.
Not only that, you have MS wanting to tell others what they can and cannot
do, in the privacies of their own homes, with things they purchase from
them.
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