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

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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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Klaus Schilling wrote:
> 
> Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > In article <p5ogrrmz74.fsf@baynetworks.com>, Paul D. Smith
> > <psmith@baynetworks.com> writes
> > >Not so.  They fail now because the large majority of business is
> > >standardized or standardizing on Microsoft Office tools.  Everyone is
> > >mailing Word97 documents, etc. around.  Everyone is passing Powerpoint
> > >slides and Excel worksheets around.
> >
> > >If you have no MS in your company, you very likely cannot interoperate
> > >with your clients.
> >
> > Applixware and StarOffice, in their new incarnations, will open Office
> > 97 files.
> 
> Applixwarez and $tarorifice are proprietary crap. There's no place for them on
>  GNU/Linux. Only traitors and backstabbers like A.C. encourage their usage.
> 
> >
> > 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

And who says Linux isn't a religion to some folks!  ;-)

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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <jlkreps@navix.net>
Subject: Re: Software company monopolies (Was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/05
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