By Jo Best
Published: Tuesday 27 January 2004
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adrian midgley
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Exeter
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MS is anything but a utility company. They sell a particualr flavour of electricity to continue the suspect analogy above - Edison's DC to the AC we ended up using for good reasons.
_Utility_ computing is where the soruce code is open, and the ingenuity, service and benefit comes from looking after the users well.
Linux and companies supporting users of it bids fair to be that, but we are not there yet.
Microsoft should pay the fine of course, but what ...
Dominic Tristram
Microsoft - a Utility company.
Once upon a time...
Allan McBain
MS is anything but a utility company. They sell a...
adrian midgley
If Bill gets fined 3Bn$, he'll just divide that by...
Roy Foster
Microsoft has made plenty of cash off it's proprie...
Dave Beall
A more effective measure from Europe to Microsoft'...
Bob Robinson
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