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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Microslosh vision of the future
at Monday, August 12, 2002 2:17 AM, David Schwartz <[email protected]> was seen to say: > Microsoft can have whatever vision of the future they want and can > use any resources at their disposal to bring their vision to light. > Everybody has that right. Nope, monopolies don't - the rules for a monopoly are tighter for the very good reason the customer *can't* go somewhere else, he has to decide to buy from them or go without (and in a world where not accepting MS-formatted documents can lock you out of contracts you need to keep in business, the pressure to go with the crowd is very high indeed. There *is* a gun pointed at their head, but it is financial (and smoking :)
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