[governance] something to think about for Rio

[Carlos Afonso]

In my view there would be another big threat to M$ in its own terrain -- 
if Apple were bold enough to distribute a generic Intel/AMD version of 
its powerful Leopard OSX for $100 (current price for the Mac version is 
$129, far cheaper than a Vista equivalent, although of course there is 
*no* Windows equivalent to match power, security and performance of 
OSX). Currently thousands of people are using a hacked version of OSX 
which works quite well.

--c.a.

Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
> 
>> http://blog.veni.com/?p=342
>>
>> Read carefully Commissioner Kroes statement.
>> This seems far more important than a number of issues we are discussing here.
> 
> Alas Microsoft has essentially succeeded in pulling the Commissioner
> over the table in the settlement negotiations, by getting him to
> support Microsoft's strategy for essentially killing by means of
> patents the emerging GPL-based business ecosystem which is Microsoft's
> only serious threat of competition.
> 
> http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/EU_tells_open_source_to_start_paying_MS_patent_tax
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert.
> 
> 

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