David Schwartz wrote: > > If nobody wants > these operating systems, then it doesn't hurt him not to be able to sell > them. If people want them, then he could have shown Microsoft the door.
If only 5% want another operating system, the vendor has to choose between selling to those 5% -or- to the 95% who want Microsoft. Had it not been for the underhanded tactics, he could have sold to *both* groups. From a purely economic standpoint, the sensible thing is to accept that 95% and let the 5% go elsewhere. But if *every* vendor has to make that same choice, there is no place for that other 5% to go to buy another operating system. So the other operating system(s) die off. And those 5% become customers of Microsoft since there's no other choice left. And *that* is where the legal problems start: they gained market share by preventing consumers from finding competing products. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
