> Jeff's alter ego -- Joseph Stalin -- speaks. Off to the Gulag with you!

Sorry Tom, I didn't mean to step on your turf.  Go beat the help; you know
how that makes you feel better.

> Bad analogy. That's hardware.

No, it's a market supply response in meeting demand.  Should I go over it
with you again?

Billy has a brewery that makes tasty beer, but has no way to distribute it.
Sally at the glass factory sees this and makes bottles to hold it and Roger
at the foundry gets the idea to make the bottle openers.  

Amy at the goldfish store thinks Sally should be making fish bowls instead
of beer bottles, but goldfish just aren't selling much these days.  Sally
understands and apologizes for the market conditions, but Amy tells her to
stuff it.

Bob opens his Tasty Beer store after Amy's goldfish market closes down from
sagging sales and poor management.  Billy buys the first round in
celebration of his first big sale.  Amy goes back to academia and publishes
papers bitterly criticizing free enterprise.

> What's actually happening in that space
> is
> that everyone uses MP3 format, exactly as they should.

Well, *almost* everyone.  **cough** iTunes **cough**

> Silverlight is a Johhny-come-lately, mee-too product that MS is now
> trying to shove down people's throats "because we can".

Are you sure it's Microsoft?  Because the stuff you write is what hits my
gag reflex on a regular basis.


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