-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 April 2004 13:28, Terence McCarthy wrote:
On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:16:58 -0400
Rich3800@aol.com wrote:
What I like about Microsoft is that Microsoft is only a tempory phenomenon, a business aberration, a bump-in-the-road. In a few years, people will think back and laugh and say "Microsoft? What was Microsoft?" people will be hard-pressed to even remember what Microsoft was and meant.
I have (respectfully) to disagree. Like hoover and biro, it will remain.
As a noun:
"He's a real microsoft" - arrogant, over-bearing, and a bit (lot) meglomaniacal.
As a verb:
"She's really microsofted that project" - (expletively) badly fsck-ed, late, but has a good gloss on it, as gloss is all that matters.
And as no doubt many other parts of speech, either in addition to vocabulary:
"This engine's well and truly microsoftly fsck-ed"
or in replacement:
"This microsofting microsofter microsofting microsofted"
HTH
Terence
Correct IMHO. M$ will not go away - it will become a case of mind over matter. Most people won't mind because it won't matter - at least as much. IF Linux wasn't doing so well why would Sun and M$ make nice? Perhaps because they are both baffled and threatened by FOSS/Linux. Sun wants Solaris on big iron because it means Big $$$ - it ain't gonna happen... Period. M$ wants to rule the world and could always bully or kill off the competition. Grass roots movements such as FOSS isn't viral - it's foundational - and hence the rub. You can't overtake and control standards by implementing "quasi" standards - as is the case with M$ if no one decides to use the products they are folded into. Kinda blows out the whole lock in angle out. And therefore, end-users and corporates alike won't have to worry about inter-op and functionality - Open standards means everyone can play and the malcontents lose their niche and in M$' case their dominance. Cheers, Curtis. - -- Spammers Beware: Tresspassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Warning: Individuals throwing objects at the crocodiles will be asked to retrieve them! If pro is the opposite of con, then the opposite of progress must be congress! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAczt07CQBg4DqqCwRAsEsAJ9j4sXIMidTPCfpEs/4/HoB69M4vwCg2Jgf 6Ibr8VxIW/WUv9Hulg9Rbt8= =qatO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----