Re: micro$haft wants your ass

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Think about this, if you are in business and your main 
reason for success is some very effective (never mind if it 
is ethical or not) marketing strategy and eventually the 
competitor (that you laughed at and ignored) begins to 
advance on your market share because your customers realize 
that the competitive products really are better and start 
to use the competitors products along with yours and are 
happy with the arrangement and you start attacking them in 
court, how long do you think you will stay in business?

Here is a real world situation that has already come to 
pass. The US based General Motors Corporation dominated the 
automotive world in the 70s and the Oldsmobile Cutlass line 
of cars alone were the hottest selling cars across the 
board, out selling all others makes and models combined. 
The Honda, Toyota and Datsun (now Nissan) had just been 
introduced to the US market. They were laughed at and 
ignored by the three US auto manufactures. Coming back to 
the present The Toyota Corporation has now taken the lions 
share of the market in the US (and may be else where) and 
the Oldsmobile line of the US based GM group does not even 
exist now. GM, Ford and Chrysler are all struggling to stay 
in business and are beginning to adopt the methods of the 
other three as well as doing joint ventures with them 
hoping they will stay in business. I watched the shift in 
the automotive industry over the last 40 years.  I was in 
it for nearly 20 years.  I see a similar thing in the 
software industry.

Said all that to say this, MS can't win, because even if 
they did win the court battle they still lose the war 
because they will be biting the hand that feeds them. A 
business can't attack its customer and its competitors and 
be able to stay in business for very long after, because 
the customers and the competitors will retaliate.


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