Linux Today Readers Speak: Foiling Your Sysadmin, Monopoly, Mono, and Linux Is a Kernel, Dangit!

May 26, 2009, 21:17 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Carla Schroder)

""But being forced to pay Microsoft for products we don't use -- or conversely -- being forced to pay Microsoft in order to interact with our government of the people, by the people, and for the people, are examples of an unacceptable situation.

"And for the most part, commentators carefully ignore the fact that Microsoft operates as an illegal monopoly, and that if that illegal monopoly was properly dealt with and stripped of its power to dominate the desktop market, GNU/Linux advocacy would not need to focus so much attention on Windows."

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