amicus_curious wrote:
"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Software Minimills Eat Margins
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| The rule of minimills applies beyond F/OSS projects edging out
| proprietary competitors; consider how bundled IE took over for
| Netscape Navigator and Communicator. If you were on the Internet
| in those days, did you ever actually pay for Netscape?
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http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/04/software_minimills_eat_margins.html
Where the OSS bunch always seems to make their error in thinking is that
they do not look to the uses that people have for products. For example,
Open Office is rarely a truly fungible product vis-a-vis MS Office because
it doesn't support the extensions that customers have made using VBA or COM
Interop objects that connect .NET to MS Office features. You can call it
lock-in or you can call it "innovative use of applications by customers",
but in any case the user has to weigh the cost of replacing those methods
that have become thoroughly spread throughout the enterprise during more
than a decade of usage. It is not just Microsoft at work either. Intuit,
Symantec, and even IBM have contributed a lot to this issue. That isn't
going to change just because some amateurs, with an appalling lack of
experience, think that they have a replacement product.
So, you think that Intel that develped a compiler to take better
advantage of their processors are amateurs?
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