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Peter da Silva <pe...@nmti.com> wrote in article
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> In article <01bc026e$bd4f9a20$8f201e26@speedbird>,
> Vining <vin...@shadow.net> wrote:
> > MACos.  THey do not produce the only office suite, in fact, there is
fierce
> > competition, however people buy the microsoft product.  Why do you
think
> > this is?
> 
> Piracy, a deliberate lack of standards, and Gatesing the competition.

In your answer below, you forgot to mention the main reason.  Most software
Microsoft produces is quite good, if not great.

Your logic (below) does not provide an answer as to why the #1 selling word
processor for MacOS is MS Word. 

> Some people buy Microsoft operating systems so they can bring home
software
> from the office, then they buy them at work because it's what they're
used
> to. Some people buy it because their kids want them to, because that way
> they can run pirated games, then they buy Microsoft at the office because
> it's what they're used to. Some people buy them so they can run copies of
> their games from home at work.
> 
> Most people buy Microsoft applications because they're the only ones that
> can reliably read and write Microsoft file formats. And of course they
can
> read and write other people's file formats, because they don't have tight
> restrictions on who can understand their formats.
> 
> And finally, when they have Microsoft applications, they buy Microsoft
> operating systems to run those applications because the applications are
> jiggered to run less effectively on other people's operating systems.
This
> has been documented... internally in Microsoft they call it Gatesing the
> competition.
> 
> Now you can argue that these are all legitimate practices, that keeping
> interfaces and protocols secret is a legitimate way of gaining a
competitive
> advantage. But it hurts *everyone*, because it keeps people from being
able
> to write software that interoperates cleanly, and because it restricts
> competition. Whether or not Bill Gates is evil or just excersizing his
> fiduciary duties to the stockholders with no concern for other values is
> beside the point... the computer industry *needs* to have this roadblock
> removed.
> 

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