barriers to entry.
it is a simple rule that the would be monopolist - pardon my normativity - SHOULD not break. the economists in the ranknfile of the microsoft corporation no doubt sent countless memos to heir gates's desk warning of impending doom. my own problem with the situation is that he, of course, ignored these seemingly hollow threats.
as a newcomer to the opensource community i can see the true beauty of it, still. what you have is the 1st fundamental theorem of welfare economics working to perfection... leave markets alone, and the agents involved will reach efficiency and equilibrium on their own. microsoft used its weight to force a monopolistic level of production upon the public - definately NOT an efficient level.
damn you bill! damn you for taking what you know to be economically unsound and force feeding it to a technilogically unaware public.
praise to those of you who support open source. keep it that way. it will win out in the end.
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barriers to entry. it is a simple rule that the would be monopolist - pardon my normativity - SHOULD not break. the economists in the ranknfile of the microsoft corporation no doubt sent countless memos to heir gates's desk warning of impending doom. my own problem with the situation is that he, of course, ignored these seemingly hollow threats. as a newcomer to the opensource community i can see the true beauty of it, still. what you have is the 1st fundamental theorem of welfare economics working to perfection... leave markets alone, and the agents involved will reach efficiency and equilibrium on their own. microsoft used its weight to force a monopolistic level of production upon the public - definately NOT an efficient level. damn you bill! damn you for taking what you know to be economically unsound and force feeding it to a technilogically unaware public. praise to those of you who support open source. keep it that way. it will win out in the end.