Comment Re:Linux and the desktop front (Score 1) 542
Freedom and corporate control will follow the way of the frog. Drop the frog in lukewarm water and heat it up slowly, and it will die from being boiled alive. Drop the frog into boiling water, and it'll try and escape.
The only difference is that humans are much more picky. Because of that, the water doesn't have to be boiling, but just uncomfortably hot. If Microsoft continues to slow-boil everyone with their software strategies, people won't rise up because they won't know what's happening exactly. If Microsoft springs something on people that are really outrageous, we damn well will be hopping mad.
I believe Microsoft will screw up royally one of these days and people will actually see that they're being bullied into something they don't or won't like. It will come, most assuredly....
The only difference is that humans are much more picky. Because of that, the water doesn't have to be boiling, but just uncomfortably hot. If Microsoft continues to slow-boil everyone with their software strategies, people won't rise up because they won't know what's happening exactly. If Microsoft springs something on people that are really outrageous, we damn well will be hopping mad.
I believe Microsoft will screw up royally one of these days and people will actually see that they're being bullied into something they don't or won't like. It will come, most assuredly....
