The Pirates of Silicon Valley
Remember all of that antitrust business that Microsoft had back in the late 90s? I was thinking about that today and the truth of the matter is that Microsoft was hardly to blame. Furthermore, they shouldn't have been prosecuted over that IE vs. Netscape business. Why? Because Netscape wasn't any different than IE. If you look at the market for web browsers now, nobody uses IE anymore because it's such a piece of shit.

I guess the lesson here is that where Netscape could have evolved, and tried to improve their product with things like tabbed browsing and smart history, they just chose to invest all of their resources in complaining. After all, why shouldn't Microsoft ship their OS with their browser? If Netscape really had a superior product, people would want to get it anyway. Case in point: Firefox.

Although Firefox has had all of its security holes poked through now so I don't use it anymore, but that's beside the point.

I just watched that movie, The Pirates of Silicon Valley - you know, the one about the origin of the personal computer - and first of all, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are two huge douche bags. Second of all, those guys started with absolutely nothing. They went up against IBM, Xerox, and all the other big IT guys with nothing but a few people and won. The reason they won is because they were innovators and they had a superior product. It just makes me think about how much talent and creativity really matters in the competitive market. Millions of dollars in research and development can't hold a candle to Steve Wozniak's vision for a personal computer. If you don't know, Steve Wozniak is basically the father of the personal computer - Gates and Jobs built off of him and stole everything else.

The point is that you can't feel helpless or held down in this country; you just need a great idea.