Calif. cities, counties sue Microsoft

[Tom Adelstein]

I suspect Monkies will fly out of your ass. 

I was marketing a product not too long ago and couldn't seem to get
traction. I had one vendor with 97% of the market and 90% of all PC
nodes. They had a office productivity suite with 95% of the market and a
mail server and client that had a similar share. It did calendaring,
email, sharing, etc. They also had the majority of accounting packages
running on their system.

That company's name was Novell.

I was promoting NT 3.1 at the time. No one wanted our server, much less
our desktop.

So, have a glass stomach implanted so you can see. Cause obviously you
don't.




On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 10:23, IT Dept wrote:
> Oh yeah just like all the others cost M$ soooo much. :P Why M$ is barely
> hanging on, they are losing all kinds of money
> (http://itmatters.com.ph/news/news_04172003b.html), their market cap is
> down (http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/20/technology/microsoft/index.htm),
> and it looks like they will soon fold up shop.
> 
> Yeah, and monkies might fly out of my ass.
> 
> It makes one wonder just who's idea it was to once again put M$ in the
> spotlight as the horrible tyrant? There is a saying that there is no
> such thing as bad press (unless your going to jail or into backrupcy)
> and once again we see California hauling ass to the courts ... over
> what? The fact that CA's government can't get a part of the settlement
> pie. Problem is they NEVER PAY RETAIL on any software they buy
> (INCLUDING and especially M$, trust me on this, it's all licensing) and
> the settlement is for retail and OEM customers! 
> 
> So just what is the point here? Either a) they (Cali) wants all the low
> cost software they got for FREE now that M$ is getting a new one cut
> which is unrealistic or b) someone wants to try and keep painting M$ and
> the sad beaten on corporation that has already give till it hurt (yeah
> right ... vouchers? For more M$ stuff?! Yeah, that hurts ... it truly
> pains them to give away more of their products thus flooding the market
> with more M$ stuff and thus ensuring they keep their share of desktops
> and profits up ... truly tragic <sarcasim>) and thus should be pitied.
> 
> I dislike M$ but lawsuits only pay the suits ... even the M$ ones
> eventually. It only serves as a write off (if they can even win which I
> doubt) and free press for M$ and does little to even the playing field.
> This particular lawsuit just a waste of time. 
> 
> Paul P.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Stephen W
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 4:25 PM
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> Subject: Calif. cities, counties sue Microsoft
> 
> 
> This could cost M$ many big ones...  :-)
> 
> http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040828-080804-6845r.htm
> 
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> Stephen W
> Sarasota, FL
> 
> "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ..."  Proverbs
> 
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