Re: MSFT goes after Linux
On May 14, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote:
Not surprising. Monopolies have shelf lives, and MSFT is a decade
past its prime. All its attempts at expanding its PC monopoly have crashed and burned. Cellphones: nope. Servers: nope. Its videogame biz has
managed to lose $4 billion, while barely denting behemoths Sony and Nintendo.It’s Mister Softie’s “surge” moment. There won’t be a collapse,
just slow grinding death at the hands of the open source insurgency.
The standard line is that monopolies can’t survive without state
protection. Mr Softee doesn’t have that.
As Steve Jobs said the other day, “I wish developing great products
was as easy as writing a cheque [sic]. If so, then Microsoft would
have great products.”