| 1. Software patents are a horribly harmful idea. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals should never have allowed them. 2. WTF? Xenix and SFU were in no way central to Microsoft's business, and I don't see how Microsoft arranging other banks to invest in SCO's scam had anything to do with licensing. Besides, the SCO case was about copyright, not patent, and Microsoft funds other companies to attack open source. 3. Microsoft actually disbanded the IE team after IE 6. Nobody can develop more slowly than not at all. I'm still not comfortable with modern IE, because Microsoft is trying to standardize DRM. 4. Fragmentation was never a problem for Nokia before, and Microsoft is still on the hook for S40 dumbphones. It doesn't help to differentiate by standardizing on an OS that (almost) nobody wants, or else Think Penguin would have a huge market. Nokia was a horribly mismanaged company, but Microsoft was not without fault for its rapid collapse. Microsoft was never fair to us. It's still not a fair company. Society works well when we have diversity. Most people "grow up" and become jaded and don't change anything. But society depends on people keeping their ideals and trying to change things for the better. One way is by reminding people that what we have actually is pretty awful compared to what we could have. So, it's instructive to remind people that Microsoft is still evil. |