Re: [tlug] Positive Promotion of Linux

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 12/08/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:

> Microsoft is not going to disappear, be crushed, or anything like
> that.  No more than U.S. Steel, J.P. Morgan, Alcoa, Standard Oil,
> Ford, G.M., IBM, or AT&T, Mitsui, Sumitomo, or Mitsubishi.

I agree. I do think that Microsoft's monopoly or perceived monopoly
will go the way of other famous monopolies. Just as a railroad
monopoly becomes irrelevant in the face of interstate highways, so
does an OS monopoly in the face of Web 2.0 (and 3.0 and so on).

-- 
Cheers,
Josh