seriously guys, use your heads. If Microsoft WANTED to, the could make a perfect flawless operating system, but if they did, where would the money come from??? they are just greedy f**kers

Wow, maybe with the cash Bill Gates can improve on the @%£^ computers he makes

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You brought up Airbus my friend. You compared it to Boeing. Boeing is not subsidised or supported by the US Government. Boeing does have military contracts, but as you might imagine our government doesn't pay its bills on time either.

You don't have enuf information to support your arguement and I don't much care for being told "look beyond my nosetip" when the person I am speaking with doesn't do the same. I like to practice what I preach, you aren't required to do what I do but it is good advice no matter who says it.

This is a civil chat Dice, the post I deleted wasn't totally appropriate but the facts are the same.

Skjott I Apologize that I assumed you would know more about a company that you brought up and into a post concerning American companies. Although Boeing does not hold a worldwide Monopoly on commercial aircraft manufacture it does in the states. This is allowed because the purchased and squeezed out companies were going to bankrupt eventually anyways.

Airbus has no competition. This is true because the company has no bills, no debt, even after 9-11 they didn't slow production or do mass lay offs even though Aircraft orders across the board fell sharply.

Enron is an american company that practiced extremely bad accounting to make them look more valuable they were. When this was discovered tens of thousands of people were adversely affected including the absolute loss of retirement funds, lost jobs, a blue chip stock that fell to nothing in days causing the loss of Billions of dollars to the consumer and government alike.

You and I have no problem with each other, I have no harsh feelings over this, I am a smart @$$ and I won't be anything that I am not. Expecially in a forum. "Chuckles" is a term of endearment, you are someone that has made me laugh.

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LOL I was waiting for this, Airbus. Airbus is a joke that has never turned a profit, nor do they need to. They are subsidised by the French Governement, they don't answer to stock holders and have unlimited funds. They are not a company, they are a division of the French Aironautical Agency, not sure the name but its like the French NASA. Nice attempt though. Check out thier homepage (google = Airbus) they don't have an financial statements, no investor info and thier orders vs deliveries page is the worst math ever, Enron could count better than these people!!

I worked at Boeing, that doesn't mean I know all just more than most, and Airbus is the only competition Boeing has. It is a worthy competitor that would have gone out of business long ago if it were for French taxpayers money.

EDIT: Airbus has no manufacturing or business presence in the United States and thus the American rules of Anti-Trust do not apply, Boeing = Monopoly on high altitude high capacity Commercial Aircraft. (PERIOD)

Apple keeps making iPods.
Apple doesn't pay MS a red cent.

Now there are two possible paths:
a) MS tries to enforce their patent and claim their royalties plus damages. That would be interesting, however it is unlikely MS could uphold the patent application, and if they tried it would gain them a pretty bad reputation to be honest.

b) MS does nothing. Or perhaps even drops their patent application having scored their point in proving they are the superior company business wise. Might improve MS stocks, more likely hurt Apple stocks as they show a rather lacklustre way of doing business. Shareholders are generally not impressed when these things happen.

I'd just like to point out that Boeing do not have a monopoly, rather it's a duopoly - know a little company called Airbus?

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