'... Microsoft is not dead, because (come on get real) it's a company, and companies aren't living, and they don't die ...' [0]
It's always good to read a collory argument. In this case Dave Winer.
Can't help think that Dave misses the point. MS is dead in the sense they are no longer the dominant force in software technology. Especially true in the eyes of the young consumer. Remember when MS was a consumer OS company instead of just another supplier to (Big) Business.
I do like the idea of cycle of tech companies and appeals to the empiricist in me.
Reference
[0] The Corporation, a film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbot, Joel Baken, 2003, "'... Corporation lawyers gained rights through the US Supreme Court using the 14th Amendment (set up to protect slaves) that gives them the rights of a person ...' As for corporations not living, they do have the the rights of a living person, distastefully garnered from rights assigned to liberate slaves. PDF 34Kb"
It's always good to read a collory argument. In this case Dave Winer.
Can't help think that Dave misses the point. MS is dead in the sense they are no longer the dominant force in software technology. Especially true in the eyes of the young consumer. Remember when MS was a consumer OS company instead of just another supplier to (Big) Business.
I do like the idea of cycle of tech companies and appeals to the empiricist in me.
Reference
[0] The Corporation, a film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbot, Joel Baken, 2003, "'... Corporation lawyers gained rights through the US Supreme Court using the 14th Amendment (set up to protect slaves) that gives them the rights of a person ...' As for corporations not living, they do have the the rights of a living person, distastefully garnered from rights assigned to liberate slaves. PDF 34Kb"
http://www.thecorporation.com/media/DVD_Chapters.pdf