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> On 22 Feb, 11:39, groups
...@googlemail.com wrote:
> A recent article suggests Gates is now trying to dominate the
> research community and get the work of his "foundation" translated
> into government policy - hence once again seeking political
> leverage.
I see one of those cases of the taste of power and influence, and its
usual warping and twisting effect on those ill-equipped to handle it...
> What is it with this man and people like him? They can't co-exist,
> they have to seek ascendancy over everyone else- success itself
> never being enough reward in itself - have to dominate and under
> the guise of competition trample on anything else regardless.
This seems to be the usual result of circumstances such as Gates',
especially in the "Land of the Free".
> Aside from giving competition a bad name, this appears to be the
> same old ruthless megalomaniac tactics with a moral smokescreen.
> Nothing i can think of would be a greater victory against this than
> a resurgent Acorn/RISC OS platform.
The danger there is that, during such a resurgence, our small collection
of enterprises would be once again seen as a target and squashed.
More subtle moves such as getting far more ARM processors into use than
Intel-style CPUs around the world have been successful, but a head-on
attack directly in the face of Microsoft (and all those who ride its
coat-tails, let's not forget) would effectively be suicide for us.
The work that Acorn did with Oracle was the right idea in another area,
but that looked precarious from the outset. Anything created in Britain
carries a "Not Invented Here" tag as far as the huge American market is
concerned. The best markets to tackle would be the up-and-coming Indian
and Chinese ones, especially as the latter probably doesn't favour
American products and designs for ideological reasons. Brazil and
Russia are the other two developing big markets.
--
John Ward in Medway, Kent - using RISC OS since 1987
Now using an Iyonix, an A9home, 2 RiscPCs and Virtual-RPC!
Acorn/RISC OS web page: www.john-ward.org.uk/personal/john/computers
