__/ [ [H]omer ] on Wednesday 16 May 2007 02:12 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> 'The big three all have so-called "on-demand" strategies underway for
>> obvious reasons. New license revenue has stalled. Making matters worse,
>> open source companies dish out new, good enough software for low-end tasks
>> at a steady pace. This leaves services and maintenance programs as the
>> only real ways to make new money.'
>>
>> Can you blame Microsoft for becoming a bully? They struggle for survival
>> as they fail to evolve and address a new /type/ of competition... software
>> that is better and cheaper, based on other (and new) economic models. It's
>> not about people making software that is just free (of charge) and
>> destoring the economy but about people making software that respects their
>> freedom, rights, and liberties. The customer is in charge, not the vendor.
>
> There's definitely a hard push away from proprietary licensing and
> towards services right now. That represents two problems for Microsoft.
> First their entire operation is currently dependant on the proprietary
> licensing model, and second they've proved themselves utterly
> incompetent in the services sector.
>
> Oh dear.
Another factor here are bodies like RIAA/MPAA. Heck, even some governments
depend on delivering unknown software...
Another factor... well, more of an intersting observation actually is that
Microsoft is willing to throw away its reputation (as if it ever had any)
just in order to save the boat, rather than burn them. They (fore)saw the
rise of Web services back in 1995 (Come vs Microsoft exhibits reveal this)
and decided to just kill Netscape and use a broken IE to make us enter a
dark age of ol' skool Internet. That time is over. Firefox, Google, and many
other forces reclaimed the Web and took us where we [co]sho]uld have been 10
years ago.
Mind you, I mentioned Web-based software because it's a classic example of
ad-assisted and support-based business models.
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