Re: uninstallation

[tobeth@lava.net (Beech Family)]

>The telephone industry as an example of regulation doesn't apply to the
>software
>industry. You can't apply your notions of what a regulated industry is from one
>industry to another. Cars aren't regulated in the same way that the Long
>Distance
>industry, broadcasting, or oil industry is.

But I bet you there are some commonalities..no? What are they? And why
would this model be a better model than the one where we have lots of
players with closed standards which all are forced to co-operate because
*nobody* has a monopoly?



>I don't expect Microsoft to be a benevolent company. Sooo.. Why can't we
>create a
>market which encourages open standards?

The question is ..how?

If we can be more clear about exactly which "best of all possible worlds"
we are proposing, and the means to get there, I think it would be
beneficial to all. I'm pretty clear about Mitch's "best of all possible
worlds", but I'd like to know more about yours, because other than the "Ma
Bell model"..I don't have much of a way to visualize this.

Many thanks

Heather