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Re: Microsoft abandoned their OS/2 customers ..

  • Subject: Re: Microsoft abandoned their OS/2 customers ..
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:37:33 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Netscape
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__/ [ flyer ] on Friday 16 March 2007 20:34 \__

> In article <1174109375.987607.69630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> ramon@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> If IBM or Intel or Sun or Cisco disappeared tomorrow, it would be an
>> important loss for technology. If Microsoft disappeared, it would be
>> replaced immediately.
>> 
>> -Ramon
> 
> Great point.
> 
> Everything everywhere would improve if MS died.
> 
> They are a useless vacuum which would fill instantly with vastly more
> stable stuff.
> 
> They threaten the entire internet with mangled "security" daily.

To be realistic, while the problem wouldn't be the technology that will
replace Microsoft (hypothetically speaking), it would people's skills and
habits, which requite mild adjustment, for the better (a lot of 'security'
knowledge becomes irrelevant).

-- 
                ~~ Best wishes 

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