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November 06, 1999 There are some things in life which just make you scratch your head and ask..."you mean my tax dollars are going to this crap"? This would be the case in the legal battles between the US Justice Department and Microsoft Corporation. Before I go any farther, I will restate the obvious and make a point. The website you are viewing is being housed on msn, a Microsoft service. The software used to develop it is FrontPage2000 and various other Microsoft products. I like Microsoft. They make stuff that works real well, and either give it to you, or sell it real cheap. In my book, that's a good thing. OK...now to the point. I don't really care what the details are in the case. I don't care what Microsoft has done or not done to the long list of very jealous and childlike companies that tried and failed to compete. All these details, which obviously are important, blur the big picture issue, which is why the US Government has any right at all to cap businesses which are so good at what they do, that they can exclude competitors from harming them. This is America... the guidelines of Capitalism state that we are to produce as much as we can, for as many people as we can...making as much money as we can. So here comes Bill Gates and does exactly what a good American business executive is supposed to do. Build something that works better than anything out there, and try and get as much market share as he possibly can. Well guess what? He WON! His business did exactly what a business is supposed to do! He built Microsoft into the powerhouse it is today. So what is his reward? All the companies which he destroyed along the way have decided its easier to beat him with lawsuits rather than products, so the Justice Department is enlisted like a frothing dog to go get the evil, dastardly Microsoft. What a joke. A true travesty of law and justice. To think that in America we are publicly sending a message that if you succeed at what you do, you are bad and need to be stopped... is definitely a sad day in our history. Thats my HOTAIR for today! |
