Thanks to Jim Ray for
this link.
“Microsoft could never have seen this coming: Linux, a serious
threat to windows, designed by a young guy who — get this —
prefers to give it away”
“At the heart of Microsoft’s business strategy, and the absolute
base of its phenomenal market capitalization, is the simple idea
that Microsoft is the only company that offers a viable
operating-system standard — Windows in its various versions — for
personal computers. That’s what Microsoft needs us to believe.
Sure, Microsoft sells applications and mice and other products, but
its market dominance is based on the operating system, on
Windows.”