Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy

[Robert Heller]

At 26 Jan 2009 00:32:24 GMT Rockinghorse Winner <rockinghorse@deadtime.com> 
wrote:

> 
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Rjack had the audacity to say that:
> 
> > Rjack wrote:
> >
> >  From the findings of fact in US v. Microsoft (1998)
> >
> > http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Open-Source Applications Development
> >
> > Seems to me that the open source business models are an abject 
> > failure compared to proprietary models.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Rjack :)
> >
> 
> As a business model, I must concur. As a model for innovation and quality,
> it has simply run circles around Windows.

Right.  In many senses, *there is no business model* that really works
well for *software*.  You either get a monopoly (eg Microsoft) selling
a poor quality product.  Or you are stuck in some sort of high pirced
nitch market (eg Adobe). Game software is the exception, since it is
emphemerial.

> 
> *R* *H*
> 

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