"John-Paul Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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.
Right, except that's utterly absurd. If every vendor takes their tiny
cut of the 95%, a huge cut of the 5% is starting to look *REALLY* good.
DS
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