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Just wondering...

If including Internet Explorer (and other less important software) into its OS cost to Microsoft a lot of money by monopolistic practices, Why Apple is still dancing in one foot if they include a lot of other things like iLife. Is it because what "we" really want is only destroy Microsoft?

Lets face it, if I had a Mac and I where a simple/mortal user with no Free/Libre OpenSource Software knowledge I would use iPhoto instead f-spot, picasa, I the same with iMovie, iDVD and the others, and I feel me proud to have them. I know, these apps are not part of the OS, you can uninstall them, and if you don't have then buy them, but they come with most of Mac Computers, so, why pay for another apps?. Is this or not monopolistic practices?.

Then. Why Apple is still dancing? I'm just wondering.
Marco Antonio Islas Cruz | Wednesday 16 August 2006 5:24pm | general, Angry, Stupid things, stuff, personal, FLOSS | 2 comments
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#1 Re: Just wondering...

rodrigo, <E-Mail> / Wednesday 16 August 2006 6:03pm  
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No, these are not monopolistic practices, for the very simple reason that Apple does not have a monopoly.

You see, the problem with MS it's not that it has a monopoly on operating systems. It's that it abuses that monopoly to try to get monopolies in other markets. Example: They bundle IE with windows, thus killing the market for browsers, thus killing Netscape, thus gaining a monopoly on browsers not because they convinced anyone IE was better but because they abused the windows monopoly to kill competition.

In Apple's case, bundling iPhoto with every mac does not kill the other photo software providers. It could at best kill other photo software for mac providers.

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#2 Re: Just wondering...

jlmolero, <E-Mail> / Thursday 17 August 2006 8:34am  
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permiteme explicarte en espa??????ħol:

El problema en si no es tener un Monopolio, es utilizar "Pr???????cticas Monop???????licas" para perjudicar a tu competencia.

Por ejemplo, el hecho de que sea Imposible desisntalar el fucking Internet Explorer es una practica monopolica porq estorba un poco a los que usan otro browser como el firefox.

Un ejemplo mas claro a???????n, es el hecho de que por mas q tu tengas configurado firefox como tu browser por defecto, El Puto MSN live messenger siempre va a abrir una ventana del IE cuando quieras revisar el correo.

Hay muchos mas ejemplos de como Microsoft obliga a usar sus programas basados en su monopolio del software.

No tengo experiencia con el Sistema Mac OS X, pero si no evita q utilices programas de la competencia no tienen porq preocuparse

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