True, they can't beat the new challenge with an old strategy. But they've come up with new strategies before when necessary, and they might (might) be able to do it again. I'm just amused to see the same gloating about Microsoft's demise that we used to see on USENET.
This isn't the first time MS missed a tech trend. Maybe you've heard of a company called Netscape? Back in the day they had this cool application and it looked like they were going to take MS out.
If you haven't heard of Netscape, it's because MS figured out how to crush them. It happened before, it could happen again.
Cosmos was funded by and shown on public television, so it's just another form of a government school. Planet Earth, also, is a government project (BBC). So maybe we should modify the comment to say that the people who direct commercial ventures are going to put profit ahead of education--which, after all, is their ethical obligation.
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True, they can't beat the new challenge with an old strategy. But they've come up with new strategies before when necessary, and they might (might) be able to do it again. I'm just amused to see the same gloating about Microsoft's demise that we used to see on USENET.
This isn't the first time MS missed a tech trend. Maybe you've heard of a company called Netscape? Back in the day they had this cool application and it looked like they were going to take MS out. If you haven't heard of Netscape, it's because MS figured out how to crush them. It happened before, it could happen again.
Cosmos was funded by and shown on public television, so it's just another form of a government school. Planet Earth, also, is a government project (BBC). So maybe we should modify the comment to say that the people who direct commercial ventures are going to put profit ahead of education--which, after all, is their ethical obligation.