>> Not really. Microsoft gains customers by illegally preventing choice. 
>> Google does it by producing a superior product. The former is illegal, 
>> the latter is the intent of any respectable business.
> 
> Err no, the intent of *any* business is to make money.

Sure. But *respectable* business do this by legal means.

> Making a 
> superior product is just one way to do that, there are lots of 
> opportunities to make money without having the superior product.

Such as...?

[OK, *one* way is to make a product of the same quality and charge a lot 
of money for it. Sometimes this makes a product more desirable - 
depending on what it is, obviously...]

> (eg do 
> you see low cost car manufacturers trying to make their cars as high 
> quality as really expensive ones?).

No, but if you make a cheap car that's inferior to all the other cheap 
cars, you're not going to make much money I suspect...

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