Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Sep 2005 10:40 UTC
More from Paul Thurrot today, as he reviews the N editions of Windows: "If you're wondering what the XP N Editions are like, wonder no more. I got my hands on both XP Home N and XP Pro N this week and gave them both a spin. The results were pretty uneventful. I can't recommend the XP N Editions per se, but I can report that you shouldn't be afraid of using these products at all. They're not crippled or broken in any way I can see."
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Monopolys are *not* good for a capitalist market. They arent good for the consumer, they arent good for innovation in the product itself, by their definition they arent good for any sort of competition. Capitalism thrives on competition, monopoly squashes it. The *only* ones who benefit is the corporation with monopoly status.
This is why special laws are made in responsable capitalist governaments for monopolys, and any (ethical) conservative economist would agree with that. These laws are there to preserve a free market, not to squash it.
Microsofts entire corporate strategy hinges on leveraging their monopoly status to give their other products an advantage, they have control of the underlying platform, and use it as a weapon. This is illegal and unethical behavior (anti-competitive, which means anti capitalist).