On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Sidney Cammeresi wrote: > You are ignoring a lot of evidence. The blogs are filled with info > coming out of Microsoft about how much of a lumbering behemoth that > company has become. Engineers buried under layers upon layers upon > layers of management. Source code changes can take 3-6 months just to > get from one end of the company to the other. These aren't things one > fixes just by throwing money at the problem, and that grants that there > is even someone at the company with vision enough to make the needed > changes, but I will not grant that fact. I hope you are right! > Never mind the historical evidence to the contrary. E.g. IBM which was > another `unstoppable monopoly.' Unfortunately (for the > anti-capitalists), IBM fell from dominance not because of trustbusting, > but because mainframes were rendered obsolete by desktop computing, and > they did not adapt to this fact. It's not all about who controls the > means of production if one has the insight to turn an industry on its > head. IBM hasn't been stopped as far as I can see. In fact, they still sell mainframes. They were first to develop a widely-adopted desktop computer design. They are currently big Linux advocates. I don't think IBM was ever as dominant in computing as Microsoft has been in desktop OS software -- they had HP, DEC, Wang, Cray, etc. to compete with. It takes a long time for a "lumbering behemoth" to fall! > Also, Karl Marx is wearing no clothes. I'm not sure what that means, but I understand that you are the Emperor: > Sidney CAMMERESI > http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/ Best, Mike