On 08/19/2012 12:53 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:33:57 -0400, "J. Clarke" wrote:

In article ,
says...

Jack wrote:

Gov't making 50 cents on a gallon is between 40 and 66 cents. The oil
companies make far, far, far less at 6 - 8% profit/ and they do all
the work. The asshole socialists want to tack on a windfall profit
tax on companies making a small profit, while they are the ones
ripping off the public. Then, the dicks turn around and give 1/2 a
billion to Solyndra to **** away into the wind. Meanwhile, MS and
Apple are making 30-40% profits on their monopoly, and no one even
whispers windfall profit. Quite a joke.


That's because Microsoft and Apple are not exactly monopolies: they have
robust and effective competitors. Their competitors are themselves.

It's rather ridiculous to talk about "MS and Apple monopoly" given that
the two are arch-rivals and that Apple would prefer that no Apple
product ever run a single line of Microsoft code.

Not buying that. How about Word? What about dual booting Windows? That was
one of the selling points they bought by switching from IBM/PPC to Intel/X86.

Apple was forced to do this to stay competitive and live in Reality. But they
are the most closed source company in the world, far, far worse than Microsoft.
They also are currently behaving quite badly. See:

http://culturewrench.com/?p=141



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