[GNUz] Fwd: Academics Discuss MS vs. OSS

[Wesley Parish]

Yes, FUD as a legitimate marketing tool, piracy - with the following 
harrassment of ordinary people - as a legitimate market seeding practice, 
etc.  Scary, isn't it.

I forgot to also say, I think MS'll be very much dependent on the good will of 
Mono and DotGNU, OpenOffice.org, OASIS, wine, ReactOS, etc, in the 
foreseeable future.  To maintain their market, of course.  What happens when 
a monopolist can't maintain his stranglehold?  He becomes little more than an 
appendage - and as many people as possible try to lop it off, on the 
Unsightlyness principle.

Wesley Parish

On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:37, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Wesley Parish wrote:
> >FWIW, I would say that within ten years Microsoft will be hanging on by
> > the skin of its teeth due to the DotNET development tools, and the
> > dimwits it's intimidated into paying for its fraudulent software patents.
> >
> >Installed base isn't everything - see how fast CP/M's install base
> > withered away once MS DOS' own installed base got to a certain size.  Or
> > how fast MS WinNT took the workstation marketplace from the Unixen.
> >
> >At the moment everybody's attention's fixed on the North American market,
> >because as of the present moment, it's still the largest market.  But
> > F/LOSS attracts a lot of attention from the developing world, and they
> > are now getting slowly but surely into gear.  And America's shrinking.
> >
> >After a while the question won't be if but when.
> >
> >I have spoken! <;^)
> >
> >Wesley Parish
> >
> >On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:02, Ralph Stoker wrote:
> >>Check out this article from the Harvard Business School...
> >>
> >>http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4834&t=technology
> >>
> >>Some interesting (surprising?) outcomes..
> >>
> >>Ralph
> >>
> >>Ps. Never really liked those Swiss gnomes..LOL
>
> I think that, apart from the total ignorance of the authors, the
> scariest thing that comes out of this is their acceptance of FUD as a
> valuable marketing tool.
>
> Steve
>
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