The Coming "Open Monopoly"

Ramsed writes: "On cnet Petr Hrebejk and Tim Boudreau wrote an article claiming that the current Microsoft Monopoly will be replaced by an 'Open Monopoly'; a monopoly of Open Source. They are explaining why big companies like IBM support this. In their view, it's inevitable this 'Open Monopoly' will win in the end, and that apart from the current monopolist, everyone will be better of, because of lower barriers for participation, software better targeted at its users and lower development costs. Profit should be made with support and consultancy." Update: 10/28 13:42 GMT by J : Little-known fact -- for important stories, slashdot sometimes runs duplicates to see who's still awake on a weekend. Nice work to those of you who caught it. See you next week. *sigh*

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Spin Doctor

[Judas96']

" Update: 10/28 13:42 GMT by J: Little-known fact -- for important stories, slashdot sometimes runs duplicates to see who's still awake on a weekend. Nice work to those of you who caught it. See you next week. *sigh* "
So what you are essentially saying is: it isn't a bug; it's a feature?

Re:Do the editors sleep all day Sunday?

[Black Parrot]

> Looks like the same [slashdot.org] monopoly we read about just a couple of days ago on /.

But how can it be a monopoly if there are two of them!

Open monopoly

[G-funk]

I can see it now...

Geek1: "You've landed on Redhat ave, with 3 houses, that'll be $280"

Geek2: "Howabout I give you BSD street and $25?"

Of course the purple ones nobody wants will be named after places in Redmond :-)