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Offline motorollin

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Re: Microsoft get spanked
« on: September 25, 2007, 06:26:26 PM »
£343m is nothing to MS. Lets hope the bad publicity costs them more.

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Re: Microsoft get spanked
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2007, 07:34:28 PM »
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ArchM wrote:
why should MS have to give it's competitors information about it's product so that they can better compete?

Because competition is desirable in a free market, and it is very difficult to compete with a company like MS.

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Re: Microsoft get spanked
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2007, 07:47:36 PM »
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amigakid wrote:
In a free Market??? Nothing is free

Free Market

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and I hate to agree but if MS doesn't want to share its code or what ever then they have the right not to.

Apparently not.

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