Billy Brown wrote:
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| Claims that the "wrong" product has won out in a free market are
commonplace
| among supporters of the products that lost, but they almost invariably
turn
| out to be incorrect.
|
This leads into "history is written by the victorious". 30 years from now,
I wonder what the general perspective on MS and its competitors will be....
For my part, as an advanced application designer, I *know* that my world is
a better place thanks to the folks at Redmond. I do understand concerns
related to anti-competitive, innovation-destroying practices, but the DOJ
has definitely jumped the gun in this case. The market would, on percieving
a lack of new innovation, find/create it elsewhere. We were in the midst of
a computing revolution, and are bound to take a technological step backwards
due to this bungle. The economic impact could also be enormous...
| Billy Brown
| bbrown@transcient.com
| http://www.transcient.com
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