On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 10:53:11AM -0700, Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> Is this a print only series or is it on their site somewhere. I went
> searching for it but no luck. ??
Honestly, I don't know. I don't think I've ever been to their site.
> > I look forward to the day when Micro$oft gets splintered and bought
> > out by its competitors.
>
> Care to imagine a scenario?
Sure. You wanna hear the one where Gates is hung, drawn and quartered
for crimes against humanity, or one of the more likely ones? ;-)
I think Micro$oft is now in position that DEC, and before that, IBM,
occupied. It lives on a model where it must grow or die -- and it
is bumping into the limits of its growth. Those limits are things
like the various antitrust actions against it, the burgeoning resentment
of their unethical business practices, the growing popularity of
alternatives like Linux, the focus on Internet-enabled everything,
and so on.
I think that Micro$oft will lose the OS market to a combination of
MacOS, Unix and Linux. (Notably Linux. Even Micro$oft, with all
its resources, cannot possibly compete against hundreds of thousands
of Linux developers, most of whom are doing for love what Micro$oft
must do for money. I know that I happily burn the midnight oil working
on my little projects, joyous in the knowledge that every improvement
I make is one more nail in Micro$oft's coffin.) They will survive as
an application vendor and perhaps a content provider, but not much else.
Or so I hope. Despite all their plaintive whining about needing
to be "free to innovate", Micro$oft has never produced a technical
innovation of any kind. In fact, they have severely retarded the
progress of the software industry for years by their ruthless,
predatory marketing techniques and their by-now legendary use of FUD.
I see no reason that they should be allowed to survive.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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