>> Oh joy, another one of your completely made-up stories bashing MS :-)
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.
>
> ...this page does not exist?

Make sure you include the final full stop.

> Tesco might sell petrol at a loss, but they don't give it away *for free* 
> to get you through the door, do they?

No, but there's no law stopping them if they wanted to.  Like when petrol 
stations give away glasses or model cars or oil for free when you buy 
petrol.  WHSmith gave me a free newspaper last time I went to get some food 
in there, I guess if there was a newspaper shop next door they might be out 
of business by now?

> Well, fortunately not everybody thinks like that. Otherwise nobody would 
> bother making any actual *products* at all, they'd all just find ways to 
> screw customers out of their money without providing anything in return.

Generally you go bankrupt pretty quickly if you try to do that.

> Buying something isn't the same as stealing it.

Oh I see, so when you're talking about MS, "stole" means "bought", but when 
you're talking about Oracle "stole" really does mean "stole" as in acquired 
illegally without paying for it.  Hmmm ok whatever.

> So your basic premise is that the only way to be successful in business is 
> to lie, cheat, steal and try to fob customers off with cheap defective 
> goods at extortionate prices?

You can't be general like that, most of those things generally lose you 
customers and profit, but you can use your judgment in certain situations. 
(eg if MS had told the people they were buying DOS from that they were 
planning to license it to IBM, they likely wouldn't have been able to buy it 
or been charged 100x more, and then MS probably wouldn't have existed 
today).

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