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The Coming "Open Monopoly"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the redfining-monopoly dept.

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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  1. Been there, done that. by BitwizeGHC · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That's nice and all but you reported on this already last week.

    Oh, and first :)

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  2. Clocks reset... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought we set our clocks back 1 hour, not 4 days...

  3. So why is the topic Linux Mandrake? by ckimyt · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Nothing further to add, your honor.

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  4. The Coming AI Monopoly by Mentifex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It cannot be reiterated enough, friends, cyborgs, countrymen: Not only will the Open Source monopoly replace the Microsoft Monopoly, but an even greater change looms enchantedly when the public-domain Global AI Monopoly of the people and the cyborgs replaces the corporate power structure.

    To see the approach of Technological Singularity, wander around in the AI history section of the Encyclopedia Cybernetica that is written expressly for robots and AI Minds.

    Now there may be some messages from some anklebiters who post as anonymous cowards....