____/ [H]omer on Monday 27 August 2007 02:05 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Thufir spake thusly:
>> On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:31:25 +0000, Linonut wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I can't pretend to understand the nature of your algorithms. But I
>>> wouldn't discount others being able to deduce them after some hard work.
>>
>> It's probably not worth the effort to duplicate the effort to create a
>> competing product if there's one already in place because by the time the
>> alternate (new) software is available, there likely won't be enough
>> customers to justify the development costs.
>
> I'd agree, were it not for the fact that this seems to be exactly what
> Microsoft is doing with .NET (Java), Silverlight (Flash), MDF (PDF),
> OOXML (ODF), and other established technologies.
>
> But then Microsoft has the money to simply buy those customers with
> viral marketing (which encompasses a whole range of things, many of
> which they'd probably rather we didn't know about).
>
They can give lots of stuff for free (or bribe companies like Novell and
Xandros) to accept this poison, which is viral by nature (dependency).
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