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Story: Open-source fight staged on 'wrong battleground'

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Rubbish! To surrender the OS battleground is to grant Microsoft a *permanent and overwhelming advantage* in the application market! Only Microsoft has unfettered access to the complete Windows API, making an Open Source OS the only true level playing field there is.

And lets not forget the lesson of Netscape, whose application threatened Microsoft so much that Microsoft drove them out of business through the illegal use of Monopoly Power. (Thanks for nothing, DOJ.)

Sometimes I despair of Gartner. Such cluelessness is truly terrifying.

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