Do you work for SCO by any chance?
Economically speaking, Microsoft is ripe for regulation. As switching costs at the enterprise level is so large, and so many companies rely on Windows (for better or worse) for their day-to-day operations, coupled with 90% market share, no one private company should be allowed sole control over it's usage. It's become a utility and should be treated as such. The "morons" to which you speak are simply recognizing that fact.
Face it: they've made money... lot's of it. Patents are great and absolutely necessary but the system has broken down in this instance... time to force the box open and let them compete, not with other operating systems, but within their own architecture. Seem unfair? It is... deal with it.
Way to go, MS. The US gov't owns a bit of medical software (DMR) called Vista (developed in open source for those playing at home) which they are distributing to all medical practices for FREE starting in August. Let the chaos begin...
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Do you work for SCO by any chance? Economically speaking, Microsoft is ripe for regulation. As switching costs at the enterprise level is so large, and so many companies rely on Windows (for better or worse) for their day-to-day operations, coupled with 90% market share, no one private company should be allowed sole control over it's usage. It's become a utility and should be treated as such. The "morons" to which you speak are simply recognizing that fact. Face it: they've made money... lot's of it. Patents are great and absolutely necessary but the system has broken down in this instance... time to force the box open and let them compete, not with other operating systems, but within their own architecture. Seem unfair? It is... deal with it.
Way to go, MS. The US gov't owns a bit of medical software (DMR) called Vista (developed in open source for those playing at home) which they are distributing to all medical practices for FREE starting in August. Let the chaos begin...