IIRC MS were the good guys (tm) a while back rescuing the public from the evil (tm) IBM monopoly......how long is it before we are in an episode of <insert big corp linux distro> gains a large monopoly and the cycle rotates again .......I wonder who will be the next "savour" .......
I can't see how this could happen to "Linux-in-general". What exactly would <big corp linux distro> monopolise? They wouldn't be able to keep important inter-operability details secret, for example.
My hunch is that MS will be the last IT company with a big monopoly. When they fade, there will be no-one to take their place. There won't *be* a place to take.
Cheers, Carl.
