[Moral Hazard]

"But if you are a geek all you will ever be is a highly paid servant. You will be Spock to someone else's Kirk because you don't have the social skills to enlist the aid of others and don't have the temperament to handle risk taking and uncertainty."

So who is it that is running Microsoft?

[Sam the Sham]

Microsoft is the result of a series of accidents and blunders.

1. Xerox gave away GUI technology to Apple because it saw no value in it.

2. IBM, figuring the money was in the hardware, let Microsoft control the software part.

3 DEC cancelled its project to port VMS to the X86, choosing instead to port it to the dead-end Alpha. Bill Gates hired away the DEC designers who turned their code into Windows NT.

Nerds will never get that lucky again.