A silent Microsoft could be golden www5.zdnet.com
I've been letting the opinion pieces slide by lately, there's not much new, but this one was too good to pass up. Very much in agreement with my own views, and nicely ironic to boot.
Just when you thought interest in the Microsoft Corp. monopoly case would have to subside from overexposure, Microsoft itself keeps stoking the flames.
Not satisfied to tend to its precarious position in the highly competitive world of personal computer operating systems and related applications, it has to make sure that the Department of Justice and anyone in the media or computer industries who will listen know that it must fight not just for its own right to innovate, but for the entire American economy to thrive.
We are the world / We are the children.
With Microsoft's monopoly, we're arguing not about life and death, but quality and vigor of an economy. It's not - yet - a crime to be Microsoft. But it could be a crime for Microsoft to bring on itself and its shareholders the full force of the federal government.
The DOJ's Joel Klein, after all, must be lapping up Microsoft's histrionics.
Sometimes, silence is the hardest strategy to execute. How sad if Microsoft, in the end, could have best saved itself by simply shutting up.
And if Microsoft shut up, I'd have to find a new source of entertainment! Very sad, indeed. Me and Joe are both lapping it up.
Cheers, Dan. |
