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Misplaced sympathy

Several years ago, someone where I was working (a Unix house) was lemanting about how Microsoft had treated poor IBM. At the time IBM's profit was bigger than MSs turnover. As if IBM could not look after itself after 90 years!

Many have willingly taken adopted Google stuff without question, while being picky about anything Microsoft. Now some small voices are asking us to be wary of such blanket endorsement without checking that we are not just creating the same monster elsewhere.

Sort of reminds me of the USSR invasion of Afghanistan, where the US was quite willing to help any of their enemies, including the Taliban, just because they seemed to be on side. Well look how that turned out. Enemies of your enemies are not automatically your friends.

Beware the big friendly cookie monster. It may graduate to eating more than cookies, if it hasn't already!

Posted by: Patanjali   Posted on: 09/25/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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