Bonkers The Clown

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April 12, 2001, on Why Bill Gates is Richer than You:
Lots of good perspectives from both sides of the issue. One of my personal pet peaves is that whenever somebody wants to start bashing Microsoft, it turns into a "Macitosh is so cool" load of crap. Macintosh is not cool. They have been a company who was always doing what Microsoft is only now beginning to do fully. "Everything that runs on my OS will be mine and under my control." The closed environment of the Macintosh computer market spelled its own demise. Someone put it rather aptly. Apple/Macintosh could have been where Microsoft is today. The problem was that Apple didn't have someone else holding ownership of their Operating System like IBM did. The persistent assertion that the world would be better if the Mac OS could be magically transplanted into the current place of Windows OS; I doubt that. The greatest driving force to make Mac OS more stable and better has been Macintosh trying to save their market share. Graphics would have been better certainly. That is the o...