[SC.LUG] Bill Gates to be Knighted?

Rick [Kitty5] rick at kitty5.com
Mon Jan 26 23:58:24 GMT 2004


David Holden wrote:
> Well ignoring the restriction to just sun or microsoft, given those
> two, at present given suns new licensing scheme sun is cheaper,
> unfortunately M$ have locked in the desktop and are making 80% margin
> on both windows and office.

Yes, but with sun you can guess who you have to buy the (more expensive)
hardware from.

> Areas where M$ does not have a monopoly stranglehold - PDA/phone,
> gaming, Internet MSN - its losing lots of money.

Hopefully they are to late to these markets to dominate in the same way

Rick

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