[Am-info] Shame on the U.S. computer industry

[Gene Gaines]

"Shame on the U.S. computer industry."

Is that statement warranted?  Interesting to contemplate.

I belive that, in the end, the Microsoft illegal monopoly of the
computer industry in the United States will result in one of the
most significant technology failures the world has ever seen.

It is the United States of America that will suffer that failure.

Other peoples and other countries will not stand for, and in fact
cannot reasonably afford the staggering cost which Microsoft has
extracted from the U.S.

Other countries will pull ahead of us.

Companies such as IBM, Intel, Dell, etc. "went along" because it
was easy and they saw short-term gain.  Besides, it was not their
family that was going to the ovens.  Shame.

The U.S. computer technology will become second best.

We are letting one company, dominated by one man, do this to us.

Who will bear the guilt, who will be blamed?  That man and that
company, but also others in power who let it happen.

Example, see

http://www.idg.net/ic_874742_1793_1-1681.html

ANALYSIS: Microsoft vs. open source gets political

Microsoft Corp. is facing a growing battle against open-source
software that is edging into politics on a global scale.

Just last week, the German government announced a deal to replace
parts of its IT system with open-source programs, and Taiwan
officials announced, as part of an effort to curb Microsoft's
dominance in software, preliminary plans to promote the
development of local Linux software.

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Gene Gaines
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
Sterling, Virginia  USA

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