"Microsoft makes more money before the morning coffee break every day of the year" than all the purveyors of Linux made in the entire year, Kusnetzky said.
You say that like it's a good thing. Who in the computer industry or the economy at large benefits from this situation except a relatively tiny number of stockholders and employees of Microsoft corporation? For what reason do we herald the fact that one company is sucking this much revenue out of the marketplace with no discernible benefits provided in return? Perhaps if we were to shed this bloated leech, IT departments and end users would be free to spend some of that money on the services and products of companies who can produce truly innovative and progressive products instead of on the same old mediocre code that gets worse with every release.
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"Microsoft makes more money before the morning coffee break every day of the year" than all the purveyors of Linux made in the entire year, Kusnetzky said.
You say that like it's a good thing. Who in the computer industry or the economy at large benefits from this situation except a relatively tiny number of stockholders and employees of Microsoft corporation? For what reason do we herald the fact that one company is sucking this much revenue out of the marketplace with no discernible benefits provided in return? Perhaps if we were to shed this bloated leech, IT departments and end users would be free to spend some of that money on the services and products of companies who can produce truly innovative and progressive products instead of on the same old mediocre code that gets worse with every release.