Google Fails to Have Lawsuit Dismissed
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When can we start buying brand new Ford Pick-Up trucks with Dodge engines? It's not fair that they only offer Ford engines as options out of the factory. If this is the precedent they are trying to set then there are a whole lot of companies that have lawsuits coming.
Let me know when I can get McDonalds fries with my Whopper too.
Let me know when I can get McDonalds fries with my Whopper too.
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The actual legal precedent is the DOJ lawsuit against Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. That lawsuit was pretty asinine too....even though many of the people currently complaining about this lawsuit against Google totally had no problem with the lawsuit against Microsoft.
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about why Microsoft was sued don't you?
Microsoft was sued for integrating Internet Explorer into the OS, not for bundling it. Also, they refused to expose those API's for developers of competing web browsers and also wrote code that intentionally made competing browsers run slower. I think that case was a little different, don't you?
Microsoft was sued for integrating Internet Explorer into the OS, not for bundling it. Also, they refused to expose those API's for developers of competing web browsers and also wrote code that intentionally made competing browsers run slower. I think that case was a little different, don't you?
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I know nothing of the Microsoft lawsuit but if what you say is true I still don't believe that sort of thing should result in a lawsuit. I think programmers should be able to build their operating systems however they want, if they want to put in a bad feature that people would hate then it should lead to the same thing as if a restaurant changed their menu to stuff people didn't like. People would stop eating there causing the restaurant to change their menu or worst case, close. If people need the government to come in to stop a company from putting out a bad product then we are just propping up bad companies. It's a bail-out without the cash. I say we leave it alone, let the good companies flourish with good products and let the bad ...
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I know nothing of the Microsoft lawsuit but if what you say is true I still don't believe that sort of thing should result in a lawsuit. I think programmers should be able to build their operating systems however they want, if they want to put in a bad feature that people would hate then it should lead to the same thing as if a restaurant changed their menu to stuff people didn't like. People would stop eating there causing the restaurant to change their menu or worst case, close. If people need the government to come in to stop a company from putting out a bad product then we are just propping up bad companies. It's a bail-out without the cash. I say we leave it alone, let the good companies flourish wi
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>>I know nothing of the Microsoft lawsuit but if what you say is true I still don't believe that sort of thing should result in a lawsuit.
Brad, do you believe there are any business practices which should result in a lawsuit? And if so, which ones? Or rather, which types, or under which circumstances?
Brad, do you believe there are any business practices which should result in a lawsuit? And if so, which ones? Or rather, which types, or under which circumstances?
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No, I have no problem with immoral business practices because it opens up huge opportunities for someone else to come in, offer a competing product without the immoral practices and take all their business. If you force an immoral company to act moral they are still immoral on the inside, and now you have taken away reasons for people to bring their business to a good, moral company.
Here is a perfect example. I work for an Agent store and there is a separate Agent for the same carrier on the other side of town. I hear all the time how that Agent is rude, misleads customers, etc and that we are always so nice and helpful so they will start coming to my store from now on. If that other store was then forced into treating their customer...
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Here is a perfect example. I work for an Agent store and there is a separate Agent for the same carrier on the other side of town. I hear all the time how that Agent is rude, misleads customers, etc and that we are always so nice and helpful so they will start coming to my store from now on. If that other store was then forced into treating their customer...
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No, I am absolutely correct.
In the EU Microsoft is actually required to offer alternative browsers during a new install of Windows, which is utterly ridiculous, it's like Coke being forced to sell Pepsi.
In the EU Microsoft is actually required to offer alternative browsers during a new install of Windows, which is utterly ridiculous, it's like Coke being forced to sell Pepsi.
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It's not like that at all. Perhaps you should actually review the original Microsoft case to see what really happened.
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Microsoft was originally tried in the US, and for different reasons than in the EU. Since the current case is being tried in the US, I fail to see how what happened in EU is relevant.
But what is happening in the US with this Google case is quite different than what happened in the US in the Microsoft case. If you're not able to make that distinction, why bring it up?
BTW, I'm not disagreeing with you that the Google case is wrong. But I don't think that it is anything like the Microsoft case, and maybe if you had actually paid attention during the Microsoft case you wouldn't be making that comparison.
But what is happening in the US with this Google case is quite different than what happened in the US in the Microsoft case. If you're not able to make that distinction, why bring it up?
BTW, I'm not disagreeing with you that the Google case is wrong. But I don't think that it is anything like the Microsoft case, and maybe if you had actually paid attention during the Microsoft case you wouldn't be making that comparison.
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