From: /m 

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:03:27 +0200, "Thees Peereboom"
 wrote:

>MSFT is in their right, of course, to protect their interests. But the
>question is whether their chosen way will prove to be the right one and
>not an enourmous boost for the use of Linux/BSD. If you borrow $1000 from
>the bank and you can't repay, you have a problem. If you borrow 100
>million from the bank and you can't repay, the bank has a problem.

Another aspect of this.  The interests that Microsoft has to protect have
become far too obese from feeding on the cash cow of the Microsoft desktop
monopoly.

Once that cash cow moves on to that big pasture in the sky, Microsoft will
have to do some very serious cost cutting (and I don't mean the towels) in
order to stay alive.  Unfortunately, I have worked for a company that was
in a "downsizing" mood.  It was not a happy place to be, even
though I was one of the people who were not encouraged to seek alternate
career opportunities.

Wall Street seems to know that all is not well in Redmond.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=5y&s=MSFT&l=off&z=m&q=l&c=

 /m

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