Hey JD, you want to take the pop quiz too? Demagoguery indeed.
Microsoft currently hold 90 percent of the operating system market share with its popular Windows system, but Gates refused to characterize that as monopoly, insisting instead that Microsoft products have a very short shelf-life and are constantly threatened by competitors.
He said a bright innovator could replace Windows "in a day."
McNealy and Jim Barksdale of Netscape Communications, however, said they doubt the Windows operating system could be replaced in their lifetimes because it is so widely used around the world.
"That would be about as easy as switching the national language from English to Dutch," McNealy said.
Now, who's the better demagog here? Who's in closer proximity to the truth in this little exchange? Bill, the most brilliant businessman of the age (and there's no sarcasm there, either, for a change) took how many years to get Windows where it is, but some "bright innovator" could replace it in a day.
You want antitrust law repealed, the process is relatively straightforward. You just got to muster a little political muscle. Now that Bill understands his former political naivete, it shouldn't be any problem at all, should it?
Cheers, Dan. |
