Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:08:08 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Smashing Bill Gates necessary? Message-ID: <000b01c16111$a0fc1d60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011029111437.A20972@keyslapper.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Louis LeBlanc >Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 8:15 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Smashing Bill Gates necessary? > > >When the tactics exercised by the >big estiablished company, even if they did start out in a garage >themselves, prevent the next entrepreneur from ushering in a new stage >of evolution for an industry or even just a parallel stage, something >is wrong. > There are those that would argue that changes in the industry itself cause this. Look at the resource extraction industries and compare logging, mining and oil. Well, today in the right areas you can still go out there and hack away in the woods working for yourself and make yourself a living logging trees. With mining, well you used to be able to do that 100 years ago but now all the easy-to-get-at deposits are played out so only the big industries can do it. With oil, well it's still just as expensive to drill for it, but the problem is that the oil companies and cartels have locked up the market. I think, though, that the existence of FreeBSD and Linux proves that the software market is not like mining and logging - there's nothing inherent in the software industry that mandates a monopoly. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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