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The only way the government would ever stop using Microsoft products is IF it turned out that Microsoft was the culprit selling secrets to China via secret hooks in their operating systems.
Personally, I would rather have some government agency regulate it than Bill Gates. At least we can vote to affect some change in the way government rules, with Bill Gates you have no say at all...
I am using Linux, but I know that it is doing really well now because of the DOJ vs Microsoft case, that can all stop if the DOJ loses it's case. RedHat will be the first to go down, all the major corporations that are now supporting it will be told by Microsoft to stop or else.
The magazines will follow, suddently all people willread about is Linux being in a state of confusion.Wake up people, the only reason Microsoft isn't crushing the lInux coporate support is because the DOJ is watching them....NO , Microsoft can't stop the grass roots movement, but they sure can stop the commercial business the same way they stopped IBM from promoting OS/2.
Microsoft is a monopoly and as such as unrivaled power in the maket place. It is not unlike the railroads of the past.
It has been a long time since the computer software induistry saw competition like this. With computers, the Microsoft monopoly tells us when we are ready for somthing really new. The new home entertainment (game)systems from Sony and now Nintendo really sound good. I will hold off buying a dvd player until I see what these new game units can do.
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The only way the government would ever stop
using Microsoft products is IF it turned out
that Microsoft was the culprit selling secrets to
China via secret hooks in their operating systems.
Personally, I would rather have some government agency regulate it than Bill Gates. At least we can vote to affect some change in the way government rules, with Bill Gates you have no
say at all...
OK...
so where does Gary Kildall fit in?
I am using Linux, but I know that it is doing really well now because of the DOJ vs Microsoft
case, that can all stop if the DOJ loses it's case. RedHat will be the first to go down, all the
major corporations that are now supporting it will be told by Microsoft to stop or else.
The magazines will follow, suddently all people willread about is Linux being in a state of confusion.Wake up people, the only reason Microsoft isn't crushing the lInux coporate support is because the DOJ is watching them....NO , Microsoft can't stop the grass roots movement, but they sure can stop the commercial business the same way they stopped IBM from promoting OS/2.
Microsoft is a monopoly and as such as unrivaled
power in the maket place. It is not unlike the
railroads of the past.
"Learn from history or be forced to repeat it"
It has been a long time since the computer software induistry saw competition like this.
With computers, the Microsoft monopoly tells us when we are ready for somthing really new.
The new home entertainment (game)systems from Sony and now Nintendo really sound good.
I will hold off buying a dvd player until I see what these new game units can do.