Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 18:51:23 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970408185120.00b162c0@etinc.com>
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At 06:24 PM 4/8/97 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, dennis wrote: > >> >Microsoft R&D $2e9 this year "and we're going to triple it" (they >> >don't say how fast though); >> > >> >Microsoft hardware group revenues $3e6 per employee; >> > >> >Microsoft presenting 20% of the papers at SIGGRAPH; >> > >> >etc etc. >> > >> >Especially entertaining is the discussion of the Windows CE platform, >> >which one article claims is a proprietary hardware and software >> >product with the manufacturers competing to be low cost contract >> >hardware manufacturers for Microsoft. >> >> I wonder how long its going to take for the courts to bone up on this and >> understand what Microsoft has become. The WebTV acquisition is very >> troubing to me, as well as the fact that they also announced that the will >> be selling "diskless workstations". Pretty soon they will make everyone >> buy hardware from them also...it seems fairly clear that thats the direction >> they are taking. > >Courts don't do it, Justice and Congress do, and they are completely >baffled by computers in the first place. Some judges actually spend the >time to learn the issues involved, but congressmen, unless it's >politically needed, never do. As long as Mom and Pop are happy with MS, >congress will leave them alone. bunk....mom and pop were happy with AT&T..it took sprint and mci and ibm to get attention. The Justice dept (I thought Justice== courts???) still doesnt understand the AT&T breakup, and they never will probably, but the impact of microsoft is MUCH more damaging than AT&T. AT&T, at least, was doing good things, microsoft is a vulture. Denis > >----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- >Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data >chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. >9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | >Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD >(301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! >----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > >
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