Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view

The article is long, rambling and full of digressions which take away from rather than add to his point. They lead to irrelevant discussions like the one above on whether the IBM PC was inevitable. A good writer (or a mediocre writer with a good editor) will make their point more succinctly.

I like a good after-dinner talk as much as the next geek. But not everything needs to start with a discussion of the economic forces of the 1970s.