Yeah, the holy market. I'm surprised sometimes that we don't have more religious action around this. Like declaring the inevitability of "this way of life". There is a lot of embedded conditioning that plays out in these discussions, hidden assumptions about "how things work".
Arguing with people in this forum is a nice diversion. Luckily for all of us computing has not and will not depend on Microsoft. Millions of people have added their creative moments to get us here and I don't expect that to change.
The communications/computer synergy, the internet, the CS pioneers and researchers, Bell Labs, Watson, PARC, the hackers and phreakers, Linux builders, the inventor of Visicalc, games programmers, all the folks that continue to build new chips, software, graphics... The list goes on and on. Microsoft is just a particular phase we are going through (IMHO).
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