On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Brian Hurt wrote:

> Because what's supporting Microsoft at this point is not technology or
> economics, but politics.  Corporate politics, in the companies.  The
> people in power have staked their careers on Microsoft being the way, the
> truth, and the light, and will fight by any means necessary being proven
> wrong.

"No one ever got fired for buying IBM" syndrome.