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32BitsOnline: Proprietary Software

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 3, 1999

Thanks to Jean-Paul
Alderac
for this link.

“Warning. The following is a rant, and as such, represents
an extremely biased opinion.”
— Rob Bos

“Over a period of three months, Microsoft Corporation made 73
cents per share in profit, for a total of approximately two billion
dollars US . That might not surprise most people.. Microsoft has a
huge net worth. The clincher, however, is the fact that that 2
billion dollars was made on a gross of about 5 billion
dollars.”

“Two billion dollars of profit on a five billion gross.”

“Forty percent profit.”

“Microsoft is just one example of a rot, a disease that pervades
the software industry. Scores of companies are constantly competing
for their little niches, hoping to obtain their own little
monopolies to leverage and take on other sectors of the
marketplace. Microsoft is not the disease, it is the symptom of a
corrupt and diseased industry…”

Read
Rob Bos’s rant
.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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