Software "Open Monopoly"

garoush writes "The following article is at C|Net.news Software "open monopoly". In it "Sun developers Petr Hrebejk and Tim Boudreau say the economics of open-source software will break Microsoft's operating system hammerlock and replace it with a what they describe as an 'open monopoly.'" I Personally have issues with such claims. With .NET, MS is positioning the company at "services" -- in effect MS is now gearing up to take on a new monopoly: "services" at the "consumer" level. If you agree, I don't see how "open monopoly" can break MS. After all, your average "Joe the consumer" doesn't know a thing about open source. " The submittor has an interesting point - but I think that even if John Q Public knows nothing about open source, if the services he uses are running open source, it doesn't matter.

But but but...

[Bob McCown]

We already have open monopoly [freshmeat.net]!

Re:Business for the established

[schlach]

"...and I don't think we've done enough education of policy-makers to understand the threat."

I wonder how much education will be enough?

$100,000? $200,000? =)


-And how would you like that, Senator Schmidt?
-Oh, tens and twenties.

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