http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/09/24/globalisation_institute_windows_bund.../

The Globalisation Institute, a European think-tank run by free market
advocates, today went on the offensive against Microsoft, calling on
the EU to require all PCs to be sold without operating systems.

It says this will not make consumers' lives more difficult, as they
would simply be asked to insert an OS DVD when they first power the
system.

The institute has submitted a policy report to the European Commission
as an attack on Microsoft's dominant position in the OS market. It
hopes the EC's success this month with the Court of First Instance
upholding anti-trust charges against Microsoft will embolden the
Commission to take further steps.

"There is no meaningful competition between operating systems for
commodity computers," wrote Alex Singleton, President of the
Globalization Institute. "Microsoft's dominant position is not in the
public interest. It limits the market and has slowed technical
development to the prejudice of consumers."

Verily I say unto thee, that uae491@googlemail.com spake thusly:

I wish them luck.

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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:45:04 +0000, uae491@googlemail.com wrote:

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ahaha HAha HAHA ahha HAHha HHAhaha haHA hahaha... yeah, the general
public installing operating systems... AHa HAh HAhaha HHA haHA hah aH

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____/ Rick on Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:40 : \____

uae491@googlemail.com wrote:

Yawn: another call for government interference so Linux doesn't have to
compete on the merits.

Now why do you suppose the Globalisation Institute bozos didn't concurrently
call on the EU to require Linux to be sold at price-parity with Windows?
Could they be Linux/OSS freetard shills? Yes they could be. If you read
the .pdf here
http://www.globalisation.eu/publications/unbundlingmicrosoftwindows.pdf you
see they explicitly exclude Mac from consideration.

And, since Linux distros usually include OpenOffice and MySQL and GIMP, why
aren't they asking that Linux distros be required to be sold at prices near
the sum of Windows Vista Ultimate, Office 2003 Pro, SQL Server 2005
Enterprise Edition and Adobe Photoshop?

DFS wrote:

They are saying that people should get to see how much that "Free" software
is costing them. Of course, this is exactly what Microsoft doesn't want. It
would drop their market share over night.

On the other hand, it can only be good for the computer industry, because
Microsoft would have to learn to make decent software or go out of
business.

Ian

[H]omer uce.gov> espoused:

Whether they're successful or not is not necessarily the issue, the fact
that they're signalling to the US government and Microsoft that their
abusive behaviour must end is the most important thing. This
illustrates one end of a spectrum of possibilities which could happen,
and is something which Microsoft and the US gov should be aware of. It
was clear through the OOXML disaster that Microsoft, even when they are
throwing vast sums of money at attempted corruption, are simply no
longer powerful enough to achieve it.

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:15:14 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:55:04 -0400, DFS wrote:

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Yawn: another statement proving your ignorant and willful bigotry.

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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:26:59 +0200, Ian Hilliard wrote:

You are forgetting the incentives paid by third partis to get their
software installed.