[LINK] Rents, points of control and the IT industry
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Sun Oct 31 08:31:42 AEDT 2010
At 21:17 +1100 30/10/10, Stilgherrian wrote:
>I reckon that if you want to understand the future of the IT
>industry, you could do worse than to read this piece by Jim Stogdill.
>http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/points-of-control-rent-extract.html
Quite apart from the valuable analysis, I've sent the last line to my
son. (He's been my tech support for the last deade or more - 40-year
industry-veterans *need* tech support).
I couldn't have said it better myself, except in my case it's in
planning, so still future tense:
>last night my Dad said to me: "I can't stand Microsoft and avoid it
>as much as I can. I've switched to Ubuntu because I got tired of
>paying Bill Gates a tax so he could run a charity."
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Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University
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