Picking The AOL Evil Over The Microsoft Evil
from the leaves-a-bad-taste,-don't-it? dept
An opinion piece over at News.com following up on the which evil do you prefer question, suggests that the lesser of two evils in this case would be AOL. The reasoning is that AOL seems a lot more likely to abide by any anti-trust rulings from the government to prevent them from doing something bad. Microsoft, on the other hand, has shown an uncanny ability to wiggle around any anti-trust rulings, or just flat-out ignore them.
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