All the more reason, I believe, that the US government should be encouraging, not discouraging as is current practice, small business or at least smallER business. A friend told me that he was forbidden to keep using his Macintosh at his federal government job, since the agency head had decided to "standardize" on Microsoft. So the US gov't gives MS billions of dollars a year in sales and destroys their competition within gov't IT installations (while at the same time the DOJ spends much money on investigations of MS's alleged monopolistic practices only to end with meaningless "punishments"). Then, as we see from the quoted article, MS is out-sourcing jobs to many low-salary Asian countries, whereas its no-longer-existing competitors might have kept more jobs here.
No rabbits. No hats..
The Second Coming -- W. B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?