of course since, if i sit up really straight, i can see what's on his screen it's a turnabout == fair play sorta thang.

the texan vc's came and went:

"these guys are like the fucking x-men! go down to the car and get the money..."

well, not exactly. but close. i love the smell of job security.

Apple && OSX are Lame Ducks
 
 

MS Ownes chunk of apple, to A) keep them alive && B) make them play nice

MS keeps them playing off MS's homecourt and in the margins (publishers, technology-as-art-kooks etc)..as long as they intend to keep their revenue from hardware and not the MS-unfriendly OS arena, MS will leave them alone - they have an non-competitive arrangment of some kind (maybe informally, but effective)

if Apple ever takes up the gauntlet (..port osx to x86 maybe?) then MS withdraws Office && Explorer... and bankrupts them.
 
so you see, the Apple vs MS argument is moot, in fact, Apple && MS have decided to work together, to their mutal advantage A) MS gets to prop them up as competition && B) Apple is allowed to stay in business.
 
  and I am tired of repeating this

really, i like my mac a lot. i do. however i admit i was a bit peeved losing my .mac page. so now, i host it myself:

http://frymaster.dyndns.org

greed has been the driving economic force since surpluses were first created. since then all economic advancement has been based on distribution models.

my company went belly up yesterday.

unemployment here i come