On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:39:11 +0200
Praise
M$ & Palladium are bad, but those who will follow them without thinking are braindead.
I agree, but this is is NOT an argument against Palladium- let's face it, how many techno-illiterates/pork barrel dippers (not always the same people!) are there out there? It's enough that there are already too many in various legislatures around the place to take the corporate bread and circuses, along with their "logical arguments" why their rapacious grasp should continue, and, indeed, expand, to stop the movement. The only hope is that (a) the lead time is such that it will be overtaken by events and/or (b) the demand for non-Palladium kit remains high enough for the non-Pallidium-handcuffed alternative market to survive anyway. What Gates forgets, I think, is that the USA is not the world, and there are existing and expanding markets, as well as some mature markets, where M$ is, or becoming anathema. Can you see China accepting it? Which country already makes a vast amount of IT kit? Where will we buy our non-Pallidium kit? I'd bet it doesn't make it (win or place). Terence