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The article is untitled as far as I can see, but the first comment was from 1998. Those were very different times. It was considered 'normal' to actually, perso
by roel_v 13y ago
The article is untitled as far as I can see, but the first comment was from 1998. Those were very different times. It was considered 'normal' to actually, personally hate Bill Gates and the Microsoft he created, and much of the open source movement in those days was about 'we hate Microsoft, we write open source software to destroy it'.
The Slashdot 'borg' icon for Microsoft is only of the few remaining relics reflecting the zeitgeist of then.
- judk 13y agoThe zeitgeist is around Apple, Facebook, and Google now, since they managed to topple MS. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
- steven2012 13y agoTopple MS? How so? MSFT hasn't been toppled, they have just failed to increase their dominance in other areas of contemporary computing. Microsoft still makes $70+B per year in revenues. MSFT is no where near being toppled, except in mindshare, they made record revenues last year. MSFT, AAPL, FB and GOOG are the top in their own separate verticals, and none can make a dent in the other's vertical. Arguably FB and GOOG are competing for ad revenue dollars, but FB is the leader in social networking, and GOOG is the leader in search.