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Remind me again WTF aren't they sued like Microsoft was over and over again?

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added on the 2008-11-06 06:43:13 by xernobyl xernobyl
i never got that either.
added on the 2008-11-06 08:16:23 by skrebbel skrebbel
when you bought windows, you had to buy internet explorer with it. youtube, on the contrary, is free, and chrome is just an ad.

but yeah, i never understood the whole suit either.
added on the 2008-11-06 08:42:57 by Gargaj Gargaj
The suit wasn't so complex.

Before IE there was a market for browsers, competition etc. After: you got a pc, it already had a browser, why would you pay somebody else for one? And if you had an old computer, microsoft was giving you the browser for free. They totally crushed the competition, giving them very little chance to get new customers and no chance of profit.

Plus, they were paying all the OEMs to refuse netscape, etc. No wonder they got over 90% market share very fast :)

Microsoft have a long, long history of fucking over competitors like that in really bad and usually illegal ways, it's a big part of the reason so many people hate them.
added on the 2008-11-06 10:15:25 by psonice psonice
so now advertising is a crime?
added on the 2008-11-06 10:16:07 by raymon raymon
When your product has < 1% market share (and falling), you need all the advertising you can get. ;)
added on the 2008-11-06 10:23:27 by tomaes tomaes
Go for it, google!
added on the 2008-11-06 14:12:45 by neoneye neoneye
google (the company) sucks donkey balls. they're getting far too big and powerful.
added on the 2008-11-06 19:07:52 by raer raer
added on the 2008-11-06 20:17:50 by Zplex Zplex
Google can't make user interfaces.
added on the 2008-11-06 20:37:22 by ericsosh ericsosh
Hm, I never got why Microsoft is sued for bundeling IE with Windows while Apple bundles a whole lot of software with their OS...
added on the 2008-11-06 20:42:55 by src src
that's of course because mac sucks and doesn't have any real software.
added on the 2008-11-06 21:05:06 by reed reed
Eh? Google OWNS YouTube, so they might as well use it to plug their browser.

Google owns!
added on the 2008-11-06 21:07:31 by okkie okkie
Google Scene domination!

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added on the 2008-11-06 23:03:26 by Joghurt Joghurt
besides, google gets lawsuits too.. think of their bookstore that started in 2005.. they got a major copyright violation thing there but only recently they managed to twist that into an arrangement so that everyone makes money and is happy!
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Remind me again WTF aren't they sued like Microsoft was over and over again?


Because they are not evil, their slogan even says so silly willy!
added on the 2008-11-06 23:09:59 by NoahR NoahR
Joghurt: excellent! :D
added on the 2008-11-07 00:36:29 by okkie okkie
src: hint: it has something to do with market share
added on the 2008-11-07 01:04:38 by raymon raymon
Because they dont violate as many laws. Chrome is a tech demo to stimulate the development of JS in other browsers making Google suite more competative.

Instead of the ms route where they create a series of stickers vendors can put on their pcs, google shows a better way, it gets adopted, or not.

Anyone remember icq dieing after msn got snuck into every 14 year old girl's computer?
added on the 2008-11-07 07:35:16 by alumunum alumunum
Joghurt. Cute and scary.
added on the 2008-11-07 07:36:07 by neoneye neoneye
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Chrome is a tech demo to stimulate the development of JS in other browsers making Google suite more competative.

I'm sure they originally had a little more in mind, but that's what it boils down to now. Generally, it seems that Google is a company with the attention span of a five year old. Every other day, they have a new idea that ends up as yet another - barely useful - beta project.
added on the 2008-11-07 08:56:12 by tomaes tomaes
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Hm, I never got why Microsoft is sued for bundeling IE with Windows while Apple bundles a whole lot of software with their OS...


Notice how microsoft are still bundling IE with windows? That wasn't the main issue... building it into the OS so you can't uninstall it, and paying the PC makers to stop bundling netscape etc. were the big problems, they were blocking access to the market. That and the monopoly they had in the pc market, so if they do that the competitors stand zero chance...

Apple is a bit different, as they're not stopping anyone from bundling it with osx based computers, and they don't own almost all of the market. It's easy to uninstall safari too, you just drag the icon into the bin.

Having said that though, if apple take over microsoft's monopoly they'll have a whole ton of trouble for quicktime ;)
added on the 2008-11-07 10:23:20 by psonice psonice
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Apple is a bit different, as they're not stopping anyone from bundling it with osx based computers, and they don't own almost all of the market. It's easy to uninstall safari too, you just drag the icon into the bin.
What about the iphone then ? There is a public SDK but Apple refuses any app that competes with their own apps.
added on the 2008-11-07 10:46:09 by p01 p01

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