[TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company shoots itsself in the foot (MS Vista)

[Cristobal Palmer]

On 12/26/06, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
> because it pays the bills and has 93% of the
> market share according to webstats

And depending on your reasoning/motivation, that may be perfectly
valid. For me, the social impact of allowing a monopoly to own our
data is not an externality. Allowing a business to sell what is
essentially a fixed-cost item as if there were high marginal costs at
the expense of many little guys is not an externality.

/me gets back to work writing on a free platform using free tools.

Thanks and Happy Holidays to all,

-- 
Cristobal M. Palmer
UNC-CH SILS Student -- ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer
TriLUG Vice Chair
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