Elf Sternberg

You know, the harder they push for total control, the less control they get. Look at what happened to Sony. Total recall, embarassment, and, more than likely, a sharp drop in market share, just as the holiday madness is getting underway...

That, and the handwriting is on the wall for Microsoft. The open sourcing of Solaris was a huge bombshell, and final notice to the boys in Redmond that making operating systems is not where the money is. Windows cannot be a desktop-only OS; the margins are far too thin. The server room is where the deep pockets are, but those pockets have just had the drains opened on them. And as much as I gloat over Sony losing share this year, they will recover and make amends. And then the war will be on again, and Microsoft can't win this war either.

Gates, Ballmer, and Allchin are legally bound by US Code to go for World Domination. They have no choice but to try, and to make it look good. Otherwise they get their butts sued off by a bazillion angry shareholders. And that wouldn't be good for Medina's tax base. But they will fail. Slowly, surely, they will fail.

Why do I believe that? Not just because of what Sun and IBM and HP and yes even Dell in a very small way are doing... but because I have to. The alternative is digital slavery. And as the man from Virginia once said, give me liberty, or give me death.