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> > Microsoft has been paid more than enough for Office and Windows. > > According to who? You? And what gives you this right? It seems odd to challenge someone's right to make a statement, rather than challenging what they are saying. If you disagree with the assertion, please explain why. Office and Windows are good products and are highly successful because they meet user needs, but they are also outrageously profitable. The high profits are derived essentially because (a) there's a natural tendency in the user community to converge on a single product, thus creating an effective monopoly, and (b) the beneficiary of such a monopoly also benefits from the existence of a copyright law that was designed to reward individual impoverished writers but now allows mega-corporations to exploit the very individuals it was designed to protect. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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