Terrence,
Generally I don't enter into such fruitless discussions as see it akin to masturbation. :)
Lot of heat and no production. ;-)
However,
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:51 AM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Monday 29 December 2008 11:21, Sachin Gopalakrishnan wrote:
Companies exist to provide a service to society. In the process they make money.
No they dont. Name one company which exist only to serve society and i shall show you a failed company!
You completely misunderstand. Every company exists to provide a service. They MAY fail because of many reasons. But they WILL fail if they cannot provide the service that they propose in a satisfactory way.
Your argument can be used to validate the M$ success! Since M$ has not failed so far can lead to point where they can say that they are providing the products/services in satisfactorily.
I don't see why we should bash MS just for making money. If they had monopolistic practices its because the competition wasnt good enough and allowed it to be a monopoly.
Snip. As i said you really need to get the facts from some place other than wherever you are getting them from. Periodically we get thoroughly misinformed members on the list. However it has been sometime since the last one. Cant blame the poor members though, the disinformation from M$ and their puppets is huge and the poor reader thinks it's great marketing. If anything they are as terrible at marketing as they are at tech.
Isn't it strange that if someone don't agree with you are have views and opinions opposite ti you becomes M$ puppet? Why we never attempt to learn from our opponents? If our opponents are vastly successful does not always mean that they always employ unfair/illegal practices. They must be doing something right - like not berating and attack newbies with insults and creating an ecosystem which feed on each other, however flawed.
Read the list for an abridged version. Or go to groklaw.net in the M$ section.
When will stop being cry baby?
With regards,