Re: SQL Server Worm devastates Microsoft Corporate networks!

Kent Paul Dolan (xanthian_at_well.com) writes:
> Which, of course, is the strongest possible argument against letting a
> monopolist like Microsoft continue to exist _at all_. If the market
> were divided up among the twenty or so competing OS vendors that a
> non-monopolistic market would engender, every link that crossed an OS
> boundary would be another natural stagnation point for virii; it is
> the ubiquitousness of "M$ at the other end" that makes messes like the
> current one possible.

And had the market thought that it was a good idea to have 20 different OSs with equal share, with all that means in porting and compabitibility problems, that is how world would have looked like.

Indeed, that is how the world looked like 20 years ago.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP
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