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00:50 - Tending Towards IBM
http://www.denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/12/InIBMsshadow.shtml
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Whatever it is you think is evil about Microsoft, IBM in the 1950's and 1960's was vastly worse. It's true that Microsoft has done things with its contract negotiations with OEM customers which effectively locked out competitors, but Microsoft's sins pale in comparison to the kind of things IBM used to do.
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Folks, on the "evil computer empire" meter, Microsoft hardly registers.
Yet.
Just give it a few years, and a little more "network effect", and a few more federal judicial victories and government contracts to establish a de jure monopoly to bolster the current de facto one. And then everything this article says was so evil about IBM will be absolutely true about Microsoft.
The article makes a great case for why Microsoft should not be allowed to reach the point where it becomes IBM, the way it was.
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