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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. Dot Bomb by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    The DotBomb disaster will be nothing compared to this.

    The "Open Monopoly" would mean the end of millions of workplaces. No profit == no business. I hope you all will be happy flying a passanger jet with "Open Source" fly-by-wire software some long-haired amateur hippy coded.

  2. The world... (of software) by geggibus · · Score: 0, Troll

    is it Open, closed or flat? and where does the dark matter come in?

    /K

  3. Re:Been there, done that. by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 0, Troll
    That's nice and all but you reported on this already last week.

    But this is 'open monopoly', where you can loop, ride the parsing railroad, enjoy free parking (telecommute), take chances, still deal with monopoly utilites such as water and electric, pay rent, and hopefully avoid jail.

    Please pay me $200.

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