____/ Linonut on Friday 22 February 2008 22:29 : \____
> * Jerry McBride peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>>> http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/02/21/lessons-from-the-death-of-hd-dvd/
>>
>> This is one of the nicest post and articles that I have ever read,
>> concerning the plight of msft.
>>
>> Thank you for posting it.
>
> I've got that site on RSS. I don't always agree with what he says, and
> he's Apple-tilted, but he's often thorough, often logical, and often
> funny.
He covers a lot of the same stuff that I do and he also sees beyond
the 'press', which is bombarded by the Microsoft PR proxies, which bend
journalists' arms to spread the hypnotic power. Did you know that if you write
an article that criticises Microsoft, a Microsoft PR agent is likely to
contact you for a correction, offer you a gift and/or ask for another more
flattering artice? I'd give evidence to show this (needs some digging).
Microsoft's great empire was very much an illusion, especially after Gates had
quit his role as CEO (loss of $18,000,000,000 that year). Linux forced
Microsoft to behave -- soon it will have it defeated, but not as a platform,
but more as an enabler for companies like Amazon, Google, even Yahoo (yes,
they began using GNU/Linux also).
--
~~ Best of wishes
"We have increased our prices over the last 10 years (while) other component
prices have come down and continue to come down."
--Joachim Kempin, Microsoft
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