On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:50:13PM -0000, Grainge, Derek wrote:
Microsoft are no longer primarily a tech company, they're a legal company.
Since when were they primarily a tech company?
About 10 yrs ago.
Most of their goodies came by acquisition.
That's right, by using their combined legal & financial muscle and making offers to other firms that they're obliged to take if they don't want to end up unemployed. -- Frank *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Boroughbridge. Tel: 01423 323019 --------- PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/ "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too." -- W. Somerset Maugham
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