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From: "David Howe" <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk> To: "Email List: nanog" <nanog@nanog.org> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:59:45 +0100 Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu at Monday, August 12, 2002 2:17 AM, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> was seen to say: > Microsoft can have whatever vision of the future they want and can > use any resources at their disposal to bring their vision to light. > Everybody has that right. Nope, monopolies don't - the rules for a monopoly are tighter for the very good reason the customer *can't* go somewhere else, he has to decide to buy from them or go without (and in a world where not accepting MS-formatted documents can lock you out of contracts you need to keep in business, the pressure to go with the crowd is very high indeed. There *is* a gun pointed at their head, but it is financial (and smoking :)
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