I have to wonder... Did your relatives work in the Carnegie Steel plants and live in "company housing" back in the great industrial years of America? Yeah, free enterprise is always looking out for the good of the people. In order to make profits better, they decided to offer employees cheap housing for lower wages and if the employee left the company, they were kicked out of their home.
Is this the type of free enterprise your talking about? Companies dictating the rules so they can make an extra buck?
Why not let Microsoft continue on it's path to controlling all of your operating system needs? When they release a new version of Windows every year and force you to upgrade it by shutting off the old version, we'll see who really wants free enterprise. I mean, Microsoft still has to make money. If they can't charge people every year, how are they supposed to stay open?
Oh, a competitor is supposed to come in and make a better product? Sure, no problem. Let them try to create an entire system of Servers, Workstations, Software, and hardware (XBox) that does everything Microsoft has control of when they finally take over. Oh, and by the way, those documents you created on Windows won't work with this new system because they are not allowed to break patent laws. Try to be the start up company on that end of the stick. "Oh, sorry, our servers only communicate with Microsoft operating systems. You're going to have to get your supplies elsewhere."
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I have to wonder... Did your relatives work in the Carnegie Steel plants and live in "company housing" back in the great industrial years of America? Yeah, free enterprise is always looking out for the good of the people. In order to make profits better, they decided to offer employees cheap housing for lower wages and if the employee left the company, they were kicked out of their home.
Is this the type of free enterprise your talking about? Companies dictating the rules so they can make an extra buck?
Why not let Microsoft continue on it's path to controlling all of your operating system needs? When they release a new version of Windows every year and force you to upgrade it by shutting off the old version, we'll see who really wants free enterprise. I mean, Microsoft still has to make money. If they can't charge people every year, how are they supposed to stay open?
Oh, a competitor is supposed to come in and make a better product? Sure, no problem. Let them try to create an entire system of Servers, Workstations, Software, and hardware (XBox) that does everything Microsoft has control of when they finally take over. Oh, and by the way, those documents you created on Windows won't work with this new system because they are not allowed to break patent laws. Try to be the start up company on that end of the stick. "Oh, sorry, our servers only communicate with Microsoft operating systems. You're going to have to get your supplies elsewhere."