Geico Caveman <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
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>> | The model shows that Microsoft can use piracy as an effective tool to
>> | price discriminate, and that piracy may even result in higher profits
>> | to Microsoft!
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | It will be very hard for anyone to oust Linux.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | We conjecture that there are multiple equilibria and that the use of FUD
>> | to mold perceptions about future value becomes crucial.
>> `----
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>> http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4834.html
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> The actions of Microsoft vis-a-vis Linux can be best understood using the
> following size analogy :
>
> Linux marketshare (according to various studies that suffer from serious
> problems) is guessed at being about 1/40th-1/80th of that of
> Microsoft. Not
Do you have a link to a study which says Linux has a 1/40th, or 2.5%,
share please? I find this very, very, unlikely indeed. From my own
knowledge of companies I have worked/consulted for (SW companies so
windows would be the choice for SW written to earn money) it would have
been about 0.1% or 1 in a 1000. And that is being generous. Most people
I know who have a PC at home use Windows because it came free and its
what they use at work. And besides all those nice new games dont work
properly with Linux unless you have a PhD in Cedega configuration. No
Rex, openGL is not used in 99.9% of games.
> unlike the relationship of a rottweiler and a flea. The flea keeps drawing
> blood (read marketshare) at a slow but relentless rate. The dog can
> fight
But is of such inconsequence that the Rottweiler, when going about its
daily business, suffers no ill consequences as a result.
> and kill other dogs, but this flea is something that he knows fearfully
> that he cannot master. He keeps scratching himself in desperation,
> only
So your advocacy is that Linux is an annoying flea compared to MSs "big
dog". I'm not sure who you are advocating here.
> opening up more sores, etc, making the flea's job even easier. Microsoft
> does not face immediate or even short term death, but it knows that its way
> is doomed in the long run. That causes even more desperation and constant
> pleas to influence Washington through lobbyists (Microsoft is one of the
> largest players in that) to ask for its flea remover spray (read Federal
> legislation / spending to make it harder for its competitors).
I congratulate you on one of the worst analogies I have ever read.
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