[Am-info] Duels to Come

[Fred A. Miller]

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Windows vs. Linux=20

Time is on Linux's side. Every Microsoft success is cause for a few more=20
million customers to fear its hegemony. And every Microsoft failure=20
reinforces competitors' belief that it can be taken down. Finally, Micros=
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is on the losing side of the same game it played to defeat Apple: The big=
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monolithic dinosaur that tries to control the landscape inevitably loses =
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the mob of tiny heterogeneous mammals that scurry about looking for any a=
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every opportunity to survive.=20

Working against Microsoft, too, is the fact that it has not been able to=20
successfully crush any computer operating system market except PCs - and=20
personal computing is a dying industry.

The interesting question, and the one that I suspect haunts Bill Gates da=
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night, is whether MS can morph from a Windows company into a .NET company=
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no easy task when the .NET initiative heavily depends upon the world=20
continuing to use Windows. It will be like hanging a U-turn in the QEII a=
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full speed.

Winner: Linux. And that will mark the beginning of the slow end of Micros=
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dominance of the high-tech world."

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"DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content
that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints." -=
Paul=20
Rickard

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