[computer-go] How to prevent Copyright violations?

[Chrilly]

There is an official decision of the EU-commission that Microsoft has 
misused its market-power to the disadvantage of other competitors and also 
end users. Microsoft has denied this and there is at the moment a legal case 
running at the European court.  I think this is the correct level to deal 
with monopolistic behaviour.
They only problem is, that political institutions do not usually work in the 
interest of common people. They have no lobby in Brussels or in Washington, 
do not pay the election campaign and they make no advertisment in 
mass-media. The EU-commission was mainly concerned with monopolistic 
behaviour against other companies.

I buy my computer when a super-market-chain has some special offers (usually 
they are selling food, but every 2 months they sell a batch of computers. 
Usually they are sold out in half an hour).
Windows is preinstalled and even if someone does not want it, he has to pay 
Microsoft royalties. But its to the advantage of most users who do not want 
to bother around with installing Linux. There is some economic logic behind 
this. It would not pay to offer 2 different PCs. The free market world is 
sometimes not so free at all.

Chrilly

In message <20060920165119.20789.qmail at web51007.mail.yahoo.com>, steve
uurtamo <apoxonpoo at yahoo.com> writes
>> It seems to me that really doesn't matter if one is
>> stealing from Microsoft
>> or from Fritz Reul, the theft is equally ethically
>> indefensible.
>
>fritz reul has likely caused less damage to the
>industry as a whole.

There are many many things I don't like about Microsoft and its products
and policies.  But I still think the world is a better place for its
existence.  Even if I thought otherwise, this would not justify stealing
from it.

Nick
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Nick Wedd    nick at maproom.co.uk
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