Re: Software company monopolies (Was Re: KDE v. Gnome)

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From: Klaus Schilling
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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timothyh@abac.com (Tim Hanson) writes:

> Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >
> >> 
> >> Where a standard exists, if you want to compete you have to adapt to it.
> >> 
> >No, those evil standards need to be boycotted and ignored.
> >
> >> >And, practically, why buy office suites that emulate MS stuff, to a
> >> >greater or lesser degree, when you could just buy the MS stuff?
> >> 
> >> Because competing packages can be far better products!
> >> 
> >Only free competing packeges can be better products, proprietary ones are as
> >much dirt and junk as MS office. 
> >
> >> >It doesn't matter how they gained their monopoly position.  It could be
> >> >through better marketing, or through anticompetitive practices, or even
> >> >through technical superiority.
> >> >
> >They gained it soley by making deals with $atan.
> >
> >	Klaus Schilling
> 
> Klau$ey, have you ever had to actually live on your own outside an academic
> setting, or where you actually had to use software for other than political
> reasons?

Starving is better than living from using $tar/ms/applix etc. office.

		Klaus Schilling

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From: Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de>
Subject: Re: Software company monopolies (Was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/06
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