Right on!

I really don’t see how some of these people keep a straight face. Microsoft, a convicted, but unpunished, monopolist has the only operating system and office automation products most of the people in that room have ever heard of and they are using, and will use (you ain’t seen nothing yet) their existing monopoly to leverage themselves into yet another. Why are they even allowed into the room?

Maybe this meeting was so lackluster because the real decision making is being carried on behind the scenes with certain “commitments” being made to the lawmakers on an individual basis.

The cornerstone for the Microsoft monopoly was laid by these same people when they mandated that Microsoft software be used exclusively in communications with the US government. We as a country have been “locked-in” ever since. Can you imagine these same people mandating that all communication with the public take place via Google technologies? The fact that a sweeping government mandated monopoly already exists in one case, and seems so ludicrously impossible on the other is all you need to know about the nature of lawmaker deliberations. Don’t let the show-trial be confused with the actual decision making process, which for all we know, has already taken place.

Always glad to see Valley people come to visit our swampy little town. Come back soon!

Andrew

P.S. That Flip Mino had me thinking about video cameras all day. See what you did?!