Re: Microsoft edging toward the brink?

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Saturday, Feb 12, 2005, at 13:11 US/Central, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Microsoft isn't about making consumer products, it's about control of
> the distribution channel.  It's that control that makes it very tough 
> to
> stop.

Here, here!  MS isn't a software company.  It's a software distribution 
company.  Things that are chipping away at the control of the 
distribution chain: FLOSS, BitTorrent, cheap CDs and CD-burners, and 
inexpensive broadband.

Some random thoughts I had last Summer and put on the wiki in December:

   http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?DistributingFLOSS

Regards,
- Robert
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