Don't feed the troll

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It would be nice if we stopped lamenting ourselves and started thinking about why Windows is
keeping its own against free alternatives.
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It would be more than nice.  It would be *constructive*.  Spreading innuendo regarding
Microsoft does not improve our credibility.  It is an indicator that we do not have confidence
in our own product.  Monopolies which are not natural monopolies have a natural life-cycle.
Oh, the time scales can be excruciatingly glacial in nature.  But nature takes its course,
eventually.

Like any corporation, they feel a need to expand their revenues.  And yet they already have
most of the market.  So they have no choice but to try to extract more money from their
existing client base.  Microsoft will bring its own downfall upon itself.  IMO, we worry way
too much about hastening that event.  Might as well push on a glacier.

What we want to be is the greenery which strings up and takes over once the glacier has
retreated.  We would do best to improve ourselves, rather than wasting effort trying to push
the glacier.

Not the best analogy, perhaps.  But I think it might help get my point across.  We need to be
worrying about our own business, not someone else's.  And the rest will follow.  Unless we
want to go through all of this only to have Microsoft replaced by another proprietary, closed
source player.