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.
Makes for interesting reading.