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Soviet Microsoft: How Resistance to Free Markets and Open Ideas Will the Unravel Software Superpower (roughlydrafted.com)
4 points by nickb on Dec 17, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Beware 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.





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