Patriarch wrote:
dpb wrote in :

John Doe wrote:
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... Ordinary consumers are stuck under Microsoft's thumb,
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How's that? There's Mac, multiple flavors of Unix and even free flavors
of Linux, et al., ...

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There is now. For a while, it was touch and go and grumble. The court
fight was something to behold, but there were certainly those who lost
heavily in the battles.

There were always alternatives and I personally don't think it was ever
in doubt there would be...

imo, etc., ...

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