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Soviet Microsoft: How Resistance to Free Markets and Open Ideas Will the Unravel Software Superpower
- davidw 19y agoThis guy makes a similar case: http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/10/in-search-of-stupidity-over-twenty-years-of-high-tech-marketing-disasters-second-edition http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/10/in-search-of-stupi...
- mechanical_fish 19y agoBeware extended metaphors. They are a royal road to stupid. I couldn't keep reading after this bit: "Windows promised to replace the risk and uncertainty of a world splintered by different platforms under just one operating system. Anyone who didn't play along with the official party line was ostracized to a Siberian gulag, or at least ridiculed as an enemy of compatibility and a threat to low Total Cost of Ownership." As a Mac owner throughout the '90s, I've seen my share of deranged, over-the-top anti-Microsoft rhetoric, but this makes Apple's 1984 commercial look like a Ken Burns film.