There are older predictions than that...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." - Gerald Weinberg, 1970's
> let the market fix the mess which the central planners have created
Isn't a Microsoft dependency failure market-driven? Compared to the 1960's and 1970's, the present-day software industry is much more driven by the market than it is by the government.
> Isn't a Microsoft dependency failure market-driven?
Not only that, but perhaps if anti-trust laws were actually enforced, we might actually have competitive alternatives.