Why Linux will win and Micro$oft will lose

Bob Cober wrote:
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> My (lengthy) point is this. Hopefully, someday in the future, the company
> will not provide your OS or even your hardware. You will bring that with
> you. Your PC is like your wallet, or even part of your own brain. You will
> bring it with you from job to job. All the company IT people do is provide
> a place for you to plug in. As long as we use more and more Open Standards
> like TCP/IP, this might be possible. Let the user select his own computing
> device...!!!!

Two words: Proprietary Information or Intellectual Property. All
the e-mail, etc that you saved or replicated on your hard drive is
Company Property, and they won't want you leaving with it.

George