IBM on a downward spiral?

[ted leslie]

i agree about the best thing for MS is redo everything and come out with 49.99$ prices.
Of course you can't sell share holders on a 2 year 20% skim off of stock price in 
hope they come back stronger with good products that they take time to build.

As for the statements about how ultimately apple and ibm could be as bad as MS,
i think is true, i mean if to the share holders and the mighty buck is all that matters,
and the share holders are ok with a rape and pillage attitude (they seem to be for MS),
then you got to assume they can all turn out like MS clones if they grow more in control of markets.

Just makes me appreciate opensource and free software so much more!


-tl
 


On Sun, 14 May 2006 22:58:35 -0400
Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I always respect Cringeley, so it was interesting to read in this latest
> column an interesting analysis of Big Blue.
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060511.html
> 
> I also like his summing up of Apple as just "Microsoft with a sense of
> style".
> 
> - Evan
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