Maybe if you’re a boomer. We’ve gone through iterations:
- for buying IBM
- for buying Microsoft
- for buying Oracle
- for buying Cisco
- for buying AWS
… what’s next?
- for buying IBM
- for buying Microsoft
- for buying Oracle
- for buying Cisco
- for buying AWS
… what’s next?
But using the saying in a way that people unfamiliar with it will (probably) understand it, I agree with OP.
Are startups in the last ~ 5 years using anything else for email/docs/calendar? Microsoft maybe, but they are already on the list. :-)
people getting fired
laid off. downsized. made redundant.
never fired.
Open source?
Open-source desktop apps for my grandma are not widespread, but still, open-source runs the world because that's what all the software engineers use to build their closed-source applications.
In the "no one fires you for buying IBM" quote, nobody was talking about Android applications, but business software. These days, no one fires you for buying Linux.
The specific type of fusion reactor which people have built in their back yards already has commercial applications.