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Article #1434Re: Software company monopolies (Was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
From: Jason Clifford
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
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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. Where a standard exists, if you want to compete you have to adapt to it. >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! >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. > >Regardless of how they got there, they're there now. That's all that >matters, in a legal sense. So they are there now. Big deal. -- Jason Clifford
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Software company monopolies (Was Re: KDE v. Gnome) Date: 1998/10/05 Message-ID: <M0CVVXAZeJG2EwCz@dlsl.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 397868617 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: dlsl.demon.co.uk:194.222.129.182 References: <6snt2s$rnk$1@news-2.news.gte.net> <p5sohihlrc.fsf@baynetworks.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980923105630.13773B-100000@howard> <slrn70ic1k.97.homer_j_simpson@donut.dhis.org> <6uc2pk$jh1$5@blue.hex.net> <873e9hret2.fsf@ivm.de> <6ufkfu$o96$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <87sohgzh44.fsf@ivm.de> <FWc39EA3TLD2Ewp3@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6uipd0$oj8$1@winter.news.erols.com> <87zpbmkhdn.fsf@ivm.de> <kbCveHAOyWD2EwdN@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <huug4stqc18p.fsf@huug.demon.nl> <2NrLLVA0kgE2EwHx@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6uupr4$m70$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <cWFxtqALBLF2Ewa6@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <yq3n27fc6hp.fsf_-_@nasrullah.tchden.org> <mbvvOkAi4WF2EwsI@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <F0ArMs.1nq@a2e.de> <H2w31fAeX7F2Ewa8@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <p5ogrrmz74.fsf@baynetworks.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 907583939 nnrp-03:15573 NO-IDENT dlsl.demon.co.uk:194.222.129.182 Organization: Definite Linux Systems Ltd MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss