On 2009-02-20, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
> this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Microsoft's biggest threat: Linux
>>
>> http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012172o-2000630136b,00.htm
>>
>> Recently, in a CNET interview about EMC, Ballmer again admitted that Linux is
>> the #1 threat to Microsoft. He said the same last year (link below).
>>
>> Feeling the heat at Microsoft
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
>>|
>>| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
>>| to go with that.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
>
> Actually, Microsoft's biggest enemy is themselves.
>
> Hubris in programmers, I can understand.
>
> Continual fsckups? No.
>
> "Microsoft is incapable of sustained error." Depends on the duration of
> "sustained".
...some pundit describe them as a company that grew up never needing
to compete based on merit. So now they are this big corporate behemoth
that doesn't know how to do that and may never learn.
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