Edited by author 06-29-2001 07:55 PM
this reads like a Steven Kings story, or like en episode of the X-files. World domination and mind control. The hidden agenda of Microsoft and their devious manipultation of the human psyche.
Looking over the past two years at the antics of the monopoly court case left me with the distinct impression of a human like naiveté about what they were accused of. They reacted as to say: 'we didn't do anything wrong did we? lets rally together and fight this!
Every company in their monopolitic position searches out the boundries and crosses them to see if they can. There is the platform, with unbound oppertunities and never before trotted paths. The main aim IS to make money. You have to make it up as you go along. Don't get me wrong. The scam, 'cause thats what it is, of manipulating OSes out of the PC market by forcing boxpushers to install only Windows is way over the edge.
But lets be realistic. Do 90% of the PC touting public have it wrong? Can you actually manipulate 90% of the computer world in to buying your products solely by ingenious marketing and coercion? When i think it over, and i'm a web design, i think they make a pretty darn good product. And i don't feel manipulated.
But the crux of the story is this: even though they WILL be as pervasive as the telephone, telcos know every time we make a phone call, or as entrenched as the postage companies, they know where you live, the world community will run away with their technology and use it in ways they never dreamed of. The moment you put somthing in the public domain you are trying to catch up with the combined intellect of the the world. That must be scary (for them). One last question: does Cisco rule the internet world?