Burgles said:
But these are good qualities of buisness. If you were buying shares in a company that didn't have this as its ethos you would be a very stupid investor... That is unless the company was playing on its image, which unfortunately some do, however that isn't appropriate in the software developing world...You can't get "low fat" windows...oh wait you can if you trim the bloat, but that doesn't sell. |
You don't need a monopoly at all costs for your company to thrive. And abusing power will most probably go against your customers' interest and piss them off, so even a megacorp must control its greed and balance it with customers' desires and a minimum of fair play with partners and competitors. Far too many times MS abused its power in OS market force-feeding users with crap like Win ME, Vista and XP before the first SPs, etc. Now people are distrustful and business with possible partners too is hurt, as, for example, most movie majors distrust MS.
To cut it short: maybe monopoly is good for MS and its shareholders, but it isn't for anybody else, so its perfectly normal that everybody else do its best to thwart MS' attempts at world domination.
