Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:58:11 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher <mfisher@csh.rit.edu> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Marketing vs. technical superiority (was: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit") Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911191350260.2056-100000@mfisher.fis> In-Reply-To: <000401bf3275$9dcc7d50$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, David Schwartz wrote:
> What's actually puzzling is why software prices in markets
> dominated by one company are as low as they are. One theory is that
This is an interesting point. I read sometime in the last week
(sorry, I couldn't find the reference) that a study has been done on
prices of software recently. For the given period of time when the
samples were taken, the average price of software decreased by 15%.
The exception to this, however, is in markets Microsoft has entered
and produced a dominating product. In these markets, the price has
dropped by 65%.
- --
Mike
"The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power
into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit
yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian."
-- Murray Rothbard
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