Em 15/07/2012 16:18, Patrick Elliott escreveu:
> On 7/14/2012 4:15 AM, Stephen wrote:
>> On 14/07/2012 8:20 AM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>>> and yes, Microsoft is the biggest monopoly ever.
>>>
>>> Yeah...
>>
>> A monopoly of what?
>>
> Yah man. The "invisible hand of the market" fixed them good. Its only
> taken 20 years of crap software, undermined innovation, patent hell,
> which will still screw us over for decades, if not centuries, and the
> spread, with help from other companies, of laws that came damn close to
> legalizing monopoly, by making any alternatives illegal. But good old
> libertardism worked... lol
>
> And, that is literally the truth. Had certain laws actually made it into
> existence, and certain cases gone in their favor, instead of against,
> they wouldn't be looking at console systems and phones as a "salvation"
> for their business. We would still be stuck with them as the only source
> for ***everything***, no matter what device, and everyone else kissing
> their asses, just to get a foot in the door.

BTW, there was a rumour just a while ago that they are into buying 
Activision, one of the oldest videogame publishers and owner of the mega 
lucrative modern franchise Call of Duty.  If they do that, they screw 
Sony and Nintendo big time.

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