Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> > > I look forward to the day when Micro$oft gets splintered and bought
> > > out by its competitors.
> >
> > Care to imagine a scenario?
>
> Sure. You wanna hear the one where Gates is hung, drawn and quartered
> for crimes against humanity, or one of the more likely ones? ;-)
Hanging, followed by drawing and quartering would take some of the fun out
of the latter part. ;P
> I think that Micro$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.
Windows CE, set-top boxes, auto software, cable investments, satellite
investments, etc. Their fingers are in everything, or as Bill Gates said in
response to a question at Seybold SF last year "we enter markets where the
potential revenue is greater than $500 million". I'm particularly wondering
if you think that MS will be "splintered and bought out by its competitors",
particularly the "bought out" part. I can see that they have a lot of OS
competition, and that the DOJ will complicate their plans, but do you think
that they'll end up having to, or deciding to, sell off sucessful parts of
their business? Also, anyone know why Corbis is not just a part of
Microsoft? Or is it?
> Or so I hope. Despite all their plaintive whining about needing
> to be "free to innovate", Micro$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.
Jack
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