Re: uninstallation

[Christopher Pall <x97pall@wmich.edu>]

Mitch Stone wrote:

> In reply to Christopher Pall's message sent 1/26/98 12:19 PM:
>
> >I am referring to this question: "Why should I support Apple? Then I'm
> >stuck with
> >another monopolistic system without open standards." Apple doesn't support
> >competition any more than Microsoft in Operating Systems, in fact, you
> >might say
> >less so. It isn't even a viable choice for me simply because of the immediate
> >economic implications I would face.
>
> I was afraid that's what you meant. Look, is Buick a monopoly because
> only they can sell Buicks? Of course not -- the whole idea is ludicrous.
> Buick might be a monopoly if they held a 90% market share, and were in
> the process of mopping up the other 10%. But they are thankfully in a
> competitive marketplace, full of other cars that only one manufacturer is
> lawfully able to produce. Owning and selling a patented or copyrighted
> product does NOT a monopoly make.
>
> >
> >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.
>
> Autos are not a regulated industry because the auto industry is
> competitive.
>



>
>
> >I don't expect Microsoft to be a benevolent company. Sooo.. Why can't we
> >create a
> >market which encourages open standards? There needs to be a "punishment" for
> >those companies who won't publish changes to their API or file formats
> >which have
> >been changed to make competition disapear.
>
> And leave the OS monopoly in place (and in fact to memorialize it as a
> permanent fixture)? Please, no thank you. I would much rather see a
> healthy variety of competitive, innovative, and yes, proprietary OS
> software then the rickety system of regulations you propose.
>

I'm saying that opening the OS to standardization - while it might leave the OS
monopoly in tact, it will open up portion of it to competition. I want to
encourage competition in the realm of Disk Caching, compression, 3d libraries, I
don't want to hand all of these standards over to a company that will "integrate"
these clearly modular aspects of an operating system in such a way that only one
company can compete.

Now if we solve the problem in the way that you are suggesting, ONLY by boycotting
(I agree with boycotting, just that it isn't the only solution) then we will end
up with Apple leading the monopoly race. If we only look at market percetages
we're missing the bigger picture IMHO.
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                       Christopher Pall
        Delphi Programmer & Western Michigan Student (CS)
                          ThinkBiz
                       Kalamazoo MI USA
email:X97PALL@WMICH.EDU               Website:WWW.ILI.NET/~pallc
                         ICQ#:4287896
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