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Bruce Schneier Weighs in on IT Lock-in Strategies
dhavleak writes "Wired has an article from Bruce Schneier on the intersection of security technologies and vendor lock-ins in IT. 'With enough lock-in, a company can protect its market share even as it reduces customer service, raises prices, refuses to innovate and otherwise abuses its customer base. It should be no surprise that this sounds like pretty much every experience you've had with IT companies: Once the industry discovered lock-in, everyone started figuring out how to get as much of it as they can.'"
That's how you make the really big bucks: become the only person who can offer a service, and offer a high price at low cost, so you have a huge margin and PE ratio.
I'm sure some witless drudge will pipe up, "But that's not good for capitalism, so it isn't the goal of capitalism!" while sitting on Mommy's lap or at Mommy's Marxist University.
He's right. The problem is that for those of us inside a capitalist system, he's wrong. We want the money. We don't care about what's good for society at large. That's someone else's problem.
If you could have an exclusive money-maker for the rest of your life, and never have to put up with the crap you face daily again, and have your kids going to great colleges with no loans, you'd take it.
We'd all take it.
The system makes whores of us all, and those who deny it are the biggest whores.
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....what kind of response involves getting the example backwards...? Thanks for taking a run at me, but I'll give you a do-over if you want to try again.
:)
"If you..." - If..... If a dwarf died and left you a million dollars and the sub cost $100,000.00 you'd... If you had to choose between jumping out of an airplane with your hair on fire and no parachute or renewing your sub... If you died the day before your sub expired... Weak