* nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx peremptorily fired off this memo:
> http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/09/09/microsoft%e2%80%99s-outrageous-office-profits/#more-272
And:
With zero competition in the desktop PC operating system and
productivity application markets, it's no wonder why Microsoft
hasn't bothered to crank out any innovation in new versions of
its products over the last half decade. It simply doesn't have
to!
Microsoft makes tens of billions of dollars every year selling
intellectual property licensees without any competitive pressure from
a functional market economy.
It's no mystery why the record labels and studios desperately
wanted Microsoft to set them up with the same sort of 'free
money' pipeline policed by the extreme, unilateral,
anti-consumer DRM of Windows Media.
It says volumes that Microsoft's only competitor on the PC
desktop is a non-profit volunteer effort. The company is so rich it
can proudly operate above the law, as it documents in its earnings
reports.
Ironic, ain't it?
--
"You are old," said the youth, "and your programs don't run,
And there isn't one language you like;
Yet of useful suggestions for help you have none --
Have you thought about taking a hike?"
"Since I never write programs," his father replied,
"Every language looks equally bad;
Yet the people keep paying to read all my books
And don't realize that they've been had."
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