Numbers? What about the numbers for all of M$FT's PC friends and neighbors, twister, who worked so long and hard to move Bill G.'s products for him? Like CPQ, IBM, HP and even a little of the godlike DELL? While M$FT's revenue was growing 29% last year, what was happening to them, pray tell?
Were they by any chance crashing and burning, laying people off, firing their CEO's, selling off businesses or announcing plans to do these things?
M$FT has a nice little setup where, even as highly capitalist market forces, all on their own, start to mutate and proliferate PC's into low-cost free-software network nodes as outlined in JC's O'Reilly lecture, M$FT still gets their DOJ-investigation-worthy criminal bully tax. Sure their revenues grow. And why should they build any factories? All they do is sell the right to reproduce garbage.
You can't argue with the fact that Al Capone had more $100 bills stuffed in wall safes than anybody else in Chicago! The man was a success! And if you don't think so, you're a card-carrying Pacifica Maoist Leninist Viet Cong!
Regards,
--QS |
