Re: ``Nothing like a monopoly to get investors to cheer you

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

Stan Johnson wrote:

>You can't have it both ways. Either OSS is a poorly-creative 'me too' kind
>of
>weakling, or it's a powerful competing force [to name just the extremes].

This sounds like a Microsoft argument to me.  "It's successful, therefore
it is a powerful competing force, therefore it is creative and innovative."



--
Eric Bennett (http://www.pobox.com/~ericb/)
Cornell University, Field of Biochemistry
377 Olin Chemistry Lab

TIP: Buy Apple Computer
WHY: According to Microsoft, the big, bad, scary Macintosh-maker threatened
Bill Gates's poor little company in 1997.
-Advice from the dilbert.com financial pages