Microsoft must be free, period. That's the kind of America I want to live in.
The waggish reply would be the paraphrase of the old saying, popular in techno-llibertarian circles I hear: If you love something, set it free / If it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill it.
But on a more serious note, we have Dan Gilmour from a few days back:
The basic particles of the Information Age are binary: zero and one. On, off. Yes, no.
Real life is more messy -- and the technology community reluctantly is accepting the real-world truth that responsibilities accompany rights.
The Microsoft antitrust case will be seen by history as a turning point. It marked one of those moments -- though certainly not the first -- when the real world took notice of an industry's growing importance and asked some hard questions. (from mercurycenter.com
The title of that column was "For tech firms, maturity is a system requirement". In the current context, I've noted my views on who the real crybaby whiner is. "We must be free to imitate, er, integrate, I mean, innovate, yeah, that's the ticket". It's all so unfair.
Cheers, Dan. |
