I was in a college business class called Corporate Strategy at UT at Dallas last year when I happened to see Bill Gates on Charlie Rose's show saying nearly verbatim words about the strategy of constant innovation to gain competetive advantage in the marketplace that defined Shumpterian competition. He is not only shrewed but soundly correct to destroy the Sun monopoly by splitting it. If they, Sun, win the suit, they still loose the game. Until the people decide to take the control away from the Overlords they will continue to fiercely compete and innocents will be sacrificed. Actually its just somewhat less efficient that way, but so is competition.
Dictatorship is very efficient, it gets railroads built.
The fact that standards are pawns in the megalithic games is not surprising, what I miss is the cry to arms of the vox populi. The king is dead. Mark M. Motokane Sun's favoritism towards Netscape. Diskeeper Get Max System Performance.