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There's a difference between wanting to work towards that goal and assuming that you are entitled to it because of the easy cash cows you have been living off for twenty years.


I didn't see much socialism in the parent's comment, and I see we have another moron who thinks they can quote an author as having the perfect answer as many governments have even done worryingly. Ayn Rand's advice on capitalism and how to run it has proved a complete disaster in the current climate, there are elements of social interest that need to be looked after but nationalisation just leads to stagnation.

I really don't know why people look to these so-called philosophers when the world is clearly not that simple. Is socialism right? Is hands-off capitalism right? That's what people are asking now. The simple fact is that no one is right. It depends.


Do you?

Wouldn't you have to draw a line and define what's your market first? MS seems to be eager to jump on everything related with IT or entertainment.

They just can't dominate everything everywhere (if they do then expect to be sued left and right).

Not necessarily. If it was my own little company perhaps i'd be pretty happy as long as it made me enough money to have a comfortable living. The majority of companies in the world aren't multinational behemots.

Edit.
Also note that wanting to dominate any number of markets is/can be bad business sense. It drains your resources away from your core business and can cost you more than you think.
Many companies has expanded wildly into different sectors only to have it bankrupt them.



You capitalist morons need to read some Karl Marx.
Or just not read Ayn Rand.



Or so you say. I dont recall the principles of free markets including that every company must strive to dominate the market. As I recall, it is about healty competion that in turn is good for consumers.

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Microsoft obviously don't understand the principles of a free market since United States v. Microsoft (1998) when they bundled Internet Explorer unfairly restricted the market for competing web browsers.

Or EU v Microsoft (2004) about bundling Windows Media Player.

Ha. You need to read something OTHER than Ayn Rand. She has warped your little brain.



If you really understood the principles behind free markets you would know that competition is what drives the market. Market domination doesn't help anyone but Microsoft. It doesn't facilitate better and cheaper products. It just puts money in Microsoft's pocket and stifles innovation.