Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 2005-10-24, David Schwartz schreef <davids at webmaster.com>:
>
> "Antoon Pardon" <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> wrote in message 
> news:slrndlpdig.hdl.apardon at rcpc42.vub.ac.be...
>
>>>     Microsoft had something you need so badly that you could not go into
>>> business without it. So they demanded from you that you pay them what 
>>> their
>>> software was actually worth to you. That is not extortion. Everyone who
>>> sells something tries to get the maximum possible value for it.
>
>> If a company wants to be paid for things it didn't deliver, then I think
>> that is extortion. Microsoft want te be paid a license on windows for
>> P.C.'s that were sold without windows.
>
>     I think you need to look up "extortion" in a dictionary. I can walk up 
> to you and say "if you want me to mow your lawn, you must pay me $1 every 
> time you smoke a cigarette". So long as you can say "no" and all that 
> happens is that I don't mow your lawn (which I have no obligation to do 
> anyway), it isn't extortion.

If you would happen to have a monopoly on the mowing business, which
would make it very hard for me to have my lawn mowed unless I took
your offer, it would be.

-- 
Antoon Pardon