That would be a waste of time. - Right, James, respect for our Constitution and working within its framework to change government policies you disagree with is truly wasteful. Too bad Bill's push for an internet monopoly is 10 or 12 years out of sync politically, up till '88 FOB Charles "Rick" Rule was running antitrust, now all he can do is testify before Congress and defend Bill in Slate. I wouldn't say I agreed with the policies of the Reagan administration there, but they did what they were elected to do, as was their right.
I'm sure Bill will appreciate your gift. However, he's supposed to be a big fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Somehow, I expect he'd agree with me that Rand's prose is prolix, and has a few other problems as well. Of course, with the institutional arrogance that seems to prevail in Redmond, I'm sure there's plenty of people around familiar with the sacred tome that can give Bill the executive summary.
So "Atlas Shrugged" is where Galt goes on strike, right? Bill could go on strike. In fact, he could go buy Bora Bora and take the whole company on vacation for a year or two. If he left a skeleton staff of marketing peers behind to keep promising the world in NT5, while slipping the schedule as required, who would know? With the usual level of support Microsoft is famous for, reinstall, reformat, buy more memory, get a bigger disk, all that, people for the most part have learned to get by. Maybe keep a few engineers behind to officially turn bugs into "known issues", and the world would keep working pretty much as it does now.
Oh, Bill could pull the plug on the PC industry by officially refusing to license Windows to everyone. But that would sort of depend on someone being willing to enforce the law wrt those precious property rights you guys hold so dear.
Cheers,Dan. |
