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Re: [PLUG] [OT] Microsoft info: link to rant
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What you mean like the airlines? and amtrak? I start to wonder is this is
a capitalist economy... I thought nonprofitable businesses were SUPPOSED
to fail...
--- noah silva
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Kyle R . Burton wrote:
> > very interesting read - if a little dated. also,i saw a short comparison of
> > enron to MS (or vice versa) on that site.
> >
> > Perhaps the key to defeating MS is not in building a better product (since
> > when does that matter) but in publicly exposing their (fraudulent?)
> > accounting practices.
> >
> > Maybe the OSS movement needs to work on lobbying the political system to
> > close loopholes that MS uses. It may even cause MS collapse ala Enron. Image
> > how attractive alternative software would look to businesses if the IT
> > managers couldn't be confident that MS would be available to provide support
> > and updates (since they are the only ones that _really_ know their
> > software). It seems to me, that MS's pyramid scheme, like all others, is
> > bound to collapse sooner or later. Regardless of who is left holding the bag
> > fiscally, how will MS products be supported if they were to be forced to
> > layoff 80% of their work force.
>
> The Bush administration would step in and 'rescue' Microsoft from any
> such collapse. They're too importiant to the economy (read: 401k and
> pension plans of big-business).
>
>
> This is of course just my opinion.
>
> Kyle
>
>
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