Apple sued for being mean to Microsoft

Apple is being sued once again. Why you ask? Because they're being mean to Microsoft. :'( The lawsuit was filed by the ever-so-provacitavely named Stacie Somers, who sounds more like a porn star to me. Ms. Somers believes that Apple has too much market share in the portable media player, and online music and video market. Somers also takes her ever so precious time to inform us how unfair it is, that Apple's own 'dominant' MP3 player refuses to play Microsoft's (their biggest competition) own WMA format, even though doing so would cost them an $800,000 license to do so. That makes perfect sense. "Let's sue Apple because they won't drop eight hundred grand to support their competition's file format. SUE SUE SUE!!" Somers, (who's most likely some nitpicking prostitute on the streets of New York) also claims that Apple has violated the Sherman Act during their 'monopolistic' reign. But let's take a look at section two of this very Law.

"Section 2 of the Sherman Act makes it unlawful for a company to "monopolize, or attempt to monopolize," trade or commerce. As that law has been interpreted, it is not necessarily illegal for a company to have a monopoly or to try to achieve a monopoly position. The law is violated only if the company tries to maintain or acquire a monopoly position through unreasonable methods. For the courts, a key factor in determining what is unreasonable is whether the practice has a legitimate business justification."

So in other words, unless Apple is going to unreasonable extremes to maintain this monopoly, which I don't believe they are, than this lawsuit will sink faster than my career on broadway would. Of course that's all up to the Judge to decide. But if he sides with Somers on this, I vote we all move to Canada. Yes, Canada. The home of fishing and great alcohol. Using this mindset, I say we sue Microsoft, for appealing to so many PC vendors, and monopolizing 90% of the computer market share; and make them let us choose whether or our computers come installed with Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, or just function as a traditional microwave. Ready, set, SUE!