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

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From: Tim Hanson
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> wrote:

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>
>> 
>> 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?

Tim Hanson

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From: timothyh@abac.com (Tim Hanson)
Subject: Re: Software company monopolies (Was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/06
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