Re: Selling Linux to Windows Users

Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/12/11 Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

That's not really a monopoly since it's kind of like saying saying Ford
has a monopoly because I like the Ford logo on the steering wheel or
Coke has a monopoly because of their cool bottle shape on cool bottle
shaped soft drinks.


Ford does not have any particular feature that no other car
manufacturer cannot implement (I know, I own a Focus!). Bart doesn't
like HP, he likes RPN calculators. (That probably means that he likes
torturing himself with technology, I bet he's a Linux user!)

Bart doesn't use RPN the previous poster did :-)

But what's stopping any other manufacturer from using RPN calculators
other than thinking it's not worth the market share?

Anyway, it's a feature that they offer that isn't specific to them,
others can do it. Just because they don't doesn't mean it's a monopoly
that one does, just as Ford making the Focus doesn't mean they have a
monopoly on cars, they are just the only ones with a particular kind
called the Focus.

Monopolies are not a bad thing, per say, but you can't do things to as a
monopoly using your monopoly position to squash a new guy with an idea.
I.e., not too many companies are doing space exploration...NASA almost
corners that market.

NASA may be the leader in interplanetary exploration, but for getting
objects to LEO and other Earth orbits there is a whole industry
brewing and thriving. Space exploration is not a market, satellite
insertion is.

Okay. I was trying to pull an example off the top of my head. To be
fair, you did say it's a brewing market...if NASA were a "bad" (illegal)
monopoly, they'd use their position as a monopoly to threaten those
companies into dropping their satellite insertion businesses or
influencing the FAA into making laws just for them that hinder other
businesses, y'know, like the music industry does. :-)

Maybe we should just take this to /.?

Oh hell the Internet equivalent of "see you by the swingset after
school?"...



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