Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 14:49:31 +1200 From: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <m0ycLbm-0028zsC@acme.gen.nz> In-Reply-To: <21723.895695616@time.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Wed, 20 May 1998 20:05:08 -0000." <980520200508.ZM1604@darkstar.connect.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> to _have_ an opinion conflicting with his own. If Microsoft stomps
> us flat and the market "allows" this to happen by not embracing our
> technology instead then what's the reward for me in trying to lead a
> foolish and undeserving market away from the consequences of its own
> folly? None. That's only a recipe for heartache and I'll be much
> more inclined to return my attention to the much-neglected (for me)
> subject of Oceanography before I'll waste my time and energies in
> such fruitless pursuits.
This is where you're missing an important point. Monopoly isn't just
a word, it means that the "market" has no say in things at all. It
doesn't matter whether the market is foolish and undeserving or not,
it doesn't have a choice. The only player with any power to influence
the outcome is M$.
That's why enlightened countries have decent anti-trust law, and
realise that a free market doesn't work in a complete absence of
regulation. Ask me about NZ's telecommuncations infrastructure
sometime.
-- C.
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Craig Harding Head of Postproduction, Outpost Digital Media Ltd
"I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly
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