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osOpinion: Shifting Silicon

Written By
M
Mike
Nov 30, 1999

I think we’ve already won a major portion of this “war”;
users now have more choices and many of them are not directly
involved in making sure Bill Gate’s kids get to go to the college
of their choice. People are still fighting this war and I’m
thinking, “Why bother?

“The changes have already been made….”

“MS employees have been quoted as saying they don’t believe MS
is a monopoly. OK, that’s no real surprise, but I have to admit it
scares me that MS programmers can’t do simple math. What do they
consider a monopoly? 112% of the world’s desktops? 115%?”

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