Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:45:40 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert@primenet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <199911230445.WAA06706@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> of "Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:37:48 PST." <000801bf3531$d1e41a80$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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"David Schwartz" writes: > > I apologize for leaving out one clarification -- the lock in must not be > directly attributable to government intervention. Obviously, the government > can pass legislation to lock out superior technologies (as it did with > halogen headlights, for example). [...] > This is government lock in. [...] > Government lock in. [...] > Government lock in. [...] > > I've got thousands of examples of this, since I've made rather > > a study of human stupidity... > > Which are the ones that are lock in? If the economic theory of lock in is > correct, there should be many clear examples. Let me add a candidate for "government lock in": Microsoft Windows/Office. Just try to deliver an electronic document to a US Government customer in any other format. Typically these days its written into the bidding rules Thou Shalt Submit Your Proposal In Microsoft Word '97 PC Format. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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