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

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 12:05 AM 11/10/98 -0500, Eric M. Bennett wrote:
 
>I don't see why Linux is any different than any of the commercial OSes in
>this particular respect.  There are many OSes with very small market share,
>and they compete with each other as well as with Windows.  Whether or not
>they are commercial is not relevant to this particular point.

Linux is different because it is priced at predatory levels. It forecloses
development of commercial alternatives, while at the same time offering
no opportunity for commercial developers to leverage its code.

One might well see it as a collaborative effort at predatory pricing. The
effects are no different than if a private company did it.

--Brett