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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: alydar who wrote (59380)7/3/2001 6:15:26 PM
From: Bill Fischofer  Respond to of 74651
 
It's a big leap from "I want to write an OS for my PC" to "I want to put Windows out of business", but if that's what you want to believe was Linus' intent you're certainly free to do so. Fortunately for consumers, however, the OS business is not a zero-sum game. While MSFT doesn't need others to fail to be successful it seems others just can't find satisfaction in any future where MSFT enjoys any success at all.