InfoWorld: MS masters NC mind-set

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Nicholas Petreley maintains that Microsoft has the
thought-control rays turned on and pointed at the industry’s head.
How else to explain a centralized computing model like .NET’s
recent acceptance when network computing has been savaged in favor
of PC computing for years?

“WAKE UP, open-source community. The battle is not for
the desktop; it is not for the server; it is not for the operating
system; it is not for the development environment; it is not about
the GNU General Public License (GPL) vs. Microsoft’s business
model. The battle is primarily about who will control
user-authentication services.

One of my favorite scenes in the movie Ghostbusters II takes
place during the taping of a TV show, “World of the Psychic, with
Dr. Peter Venkman.” During the show, a guest named Elaine reveals
how she found out the date for the end of the world, “As I told my
husband: It was in the Paramus Holiday Inn. I was having a drink at
the bar, alone, and this alien approached me. He started talking to
me, he bought me a drink, and then I think he must have used some
kind of a ray or a mind-control device because he forced me to
follow him to his room; and that’s where he told me about the end
of the world.” Bill Murray replies incredulously, “So your alien
had a room at the Holiday Inn in Paramus?”

As humorous as that may appear, I have come to the conclusion
that one of two things must be true: Either Microsoft has a
mind-control device similar to the one mentioned above, or some
members of the mainstream media are as gullible as Elaine. I can
think of no other explanation why people are reacting so
differently to Microsoft’s .NET than they did to IBM, Oracle, and
Sun’s promotion of NC (network computing) a few years back.”

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