Hmmm, no mention of the close scrape with the DoJ (but for a change of government...).
And no mention of how the current EC drubbing has emboldened competitors to take the first tentative steps back out into the sunshine in decades?
Apart from this strange omission, I agree with the sentiment of this essay.
I wish I had kept the transcript of the argument I had with a Microsoft employee in one of their forums about 6 years ago.
At the end of it, he said something like, "well, good luck storming the fortress. The walls are pretty high and our war chest is huge!".
To which I replied with something like, "I am sure that's just the sort of thing the captain of the Titanic was thinking right up to the part where that iceberg ripped his boat apart like a piece of wet tissue".
I then went on to mention that bigger companies had fallen than Microsoft (can't recall the timing of Exxon, or whatever it was called).
And no mention of how the current EC drubbing has emboldened competitors to take the first tentative steps back out into the sunshine in decades?
Apart from this strange omission, I agree with the sentiment of this essay.
I wish I had kept the transcript of the argument I had with a Microsoft employee in one of their forums about 6 years ago.
At the end of it, he said something like, "well, good luck storming the fortress. The walls are pretty high and our war chest is huge!".
To which I replied with something like, "I am sure that's just the sort of thing the captain of the Titanic was thinking right up to the part where that iceberg ripped his boat apart like a piece of wet tissue".
I then went on to mention that bigger companies had fallen than Microsoft (can't recall the timing of Exxon, or whatever it was called).