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Yeah, because Microsoft and Apple are two companies that clearly failed while Sun and 37 Signals are clearly successful multi billion dollar businesses.


The last sentence of the original post could very well be the most sarcastic post on the internet, if it was intended so.


I really should start including the tags, shouldn't I?


Yeah (sorry for down-voting you) - there are so many anti-propreitary rantings around here that it's hard to separate out the sarcastic people who acknowledge the objective reality from the standard propreitary always == bad!!!! kool-aid drinkers.


Odd choice of comparison. I think linux has owned ms and apple on the server side. mysql is the dominant db for web apps, etc.

If your metric of success is a company that makes money you are ignoring a large part of the world.


Just depends on how you define "success" (although I think being acquired and gutted by Oracle is outside anyone's definition).




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