[cw-discuss] customer expectations

[Bill]

Jeremy, Thanks for the information;

You guys are far too diplomatic to say a few more things that
USERS of your product need to be aware of, and think about.

Microsoft is not playing some game, they are playing for keeps.

And what they want to keep is your desktop. They own probably
95% of them right now, and even that isn't enough to satiate their greed.

Think about it - maybe a hundred, two hundred, even FIVE HUNDRED
engineers are more than enough to design and build ANY conceivable
operating system, along with the five or ten major applications the vast
majority of the desktop market uses or needs.

Do you seriously think the work output of even five hundred people is
worth FIVE BILLION DOLLARS? (actually, I think it's even more!)

That would be TEN MILLION DOLLARS per employee.

Yet that's what microsoft is raking in for it's strangle-hold on our
desktops. Why? And why doesn't SOMEBODY make more of
an effort to take at least some of this incredibly lucrative market
away?

Read Judge Jackson's Findings if you really don't know.

But the bottom line is, they break the law with impunity, there is
no one able to stop them, and your government, at all levels, simply
does not care or understand why they should stop them.

Does that mean no one has succeeded? Funny you should ask.

They regularly LOSE lawsuits. In fact, given competent experts on
your side, you are almost guaranteed a victory, assuming your legal
argument seeking to enforce your rights, is soundly based.

BUT you, the general public, will never know what happened in those
lawsuits because the EVIDENCE, along with the settlement terms, are
SEALED. And the ''victims'' usually get enough to simply retire.

Imagine if any small time crook like a liquor store robber could simply
pay a few bucks to settle his case - talk to the liquor store owner, find
out what it would take to make him happy, and just give it to him?

Happens every day in Civil Court. CRIMINAL cases are ''settled''
without ever being charged, because people with the means to bring
these cases would rather have money  than send mr billy gates and his
henchmen to jail - what good would that do for their bottom line, anyway?

Okay, why does all this matter?

Crossover is trying to give you the tools to DEFEAT microsoft's plans.

Even if microsoft came up with something, some application you just
couldn't live without, you DON'T NEED their operating system to run it.

This is NOT part of their strategy.

The bigger the number of Crossover users gets, the more motivation
microsoft feels to do something to stop them. The more they will use
hidden hooks, concealed anti- or non-functional pieces of code to
hobble installation and operation on ''foreign'' operating environments.

This isn't a game. It is for real - real money is at stake. Lots of it.

Think about that the next time you get on the Jeremy's cases to ''do
something about my favorite xyz program...''

The reason they may be having trouble may be microsoft's criminal intent.

* definition - if something is against the Law, then doing it is a criminal
act. Doesn't mean you'll necessarily get arrested, or go to jail. If 
it's only
a Civil Law, then the only Remedy is a lawsuit. But many Civil Actions
also have Criminal Law components, such as Fraud, Embezzlement, etc..
Many times, the victims don't want the publicity of a Criminal Trial, and
are happy to Settle - meaning, WE never get to find out what happened.

Bill Hemmings
Some place in Kansas

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Jeremy White wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> I've got a few points I'm hoping to clear up.  First, there
> are two Jeremys from CodeWeavers on this thread.  I'm the founder
> and CEO and chief troublemaker.  Jeremy Newman is the main web
> developer here, responsible for making changes to our system.
>
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