____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 28 August 2007 14:52 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 28 August 2007 06:03 : \____
>>
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>> Acer to acquire Gateway for $710m
>>>
>>> Woohoo!
>>>
>>> I've disliked Gateway for a /long/ time, and not just because of their
>>> attitude towards GNU/Linux.
>>>
>>> Just ask Ghost, he knows.
>>
>> Lenovo is after Seagate now. IBM wants Wind River.
>>
>
> As I keep saying, the PC market is stagnant, so only the very big or the
> very niche are going to survive the next 10 years. The new boys will be
> the mobile devices - look out for Openmoko and the like, N800s, GP2Xs.
>
> It's not clear what form Microsoft will have at the end of this period.
It appears to be spending a lot of money weakening and outmuscling potential
rivals (like a paranoid totalitarian regime), but no amount of money can
squash all threats. For example, Microsoft tries to extinguish Novell and Xen,
but it can't touch Red Hat and KVM. You can't whack moles when you deal with
the GNU GPL. They just keep coming and coming.
Instead of developing, Microsoft just look for butchers... y'know, those that
want the cash cow. Below the radar come startups like Google, which gives
everyone a run for the money ATM.
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