EU Warns Microsoft over Vista Features 1713
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:49:21 -0600, Bill Gross
Yes, and it's sad to see another one of our ideals fall. I used to think that capitalism as practiced by the U.S. was good. I am not one to suggest that Socialism would be any better. I am just very disappointed in the way American politics and economics are going. The fact is, that the U.S. is allowing a monopoly, one judicially recognized, to continue to exist unabated.
Microsoft has benefitted by a lot of its compebreastion falling dead, kind of like that animal that you scare and it drops over.
Apple has always (and continues to) price its product too high, especially when it is the underdog.
IBM dropped the ball with OS-2, and it's relationship with Windows and MS, and before and after that.
One of my clients has a Dell PowerEdge SC600 P4 server that they use as...
The thing that is scary about capitalism now is that it worked really well when we had a lot of growth left. Now though, with the digital revolution, things are "imploding" in a way. Less people are needed, and we are just seeing the beginning of it.
Just as less people are needed, hundreds of millions of people are coming online (in both senses). China already sends 5 times as many people to engineering and computer schools. India is competing more and more as they go through iterations of change. China will be the same. Just as Windows 3.1 was pretty clunky, eventually MS ended up with XP, and future generations of Chinese engineers software architects will also end up very or more capable.
The U.S. is in a world now where the playing field has appeared. And the sad thing is that the U.S. isn't on a level playing field. It's on a field with extremely powerful compebreastion, in countries that don't have a $9 trillion national Debt Consolidation or $500 billion annual "defense" budget.
My question -- when does an "American company" stop becoming "American"? Will Wal-Mart be "American" when it moves its headquarters to Bejing in the year 2020? And what, if anything, would that have on the corporate tax base?
Lots of unanswered questions -- and a government that sadly believes that "laisse' faire" (major sp lol) is still the way to go in a global economy.
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EU Warns Microsoft over Vista Features 1714
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