> We have in American, something called "free will". > If you don't want to sell your stuff to a rich guy, > you don't have to. They can put you out of business, > or starve you to death. We see that all the time.. and > maybe that's what we are seeing here with .NET? I > mean, they bought Delphi's inventor to work on it!
Interesting concept of free will (I didn't realise that it was American by the way!): sell your stuff to a rich guy or go out of business and starve! Oh, the beauties of the free market! No market is really "free" to that extent: the inevitable end result of commerce without constraint (legal, fiscal, protectionist or whatever) is a monopoly, which is paradoxically contrary to the claimed advantages of a free market; One of the interesting things about the IT business is that it a sort of microcosm with very few constraints (its too new to have functional legal constraints) and hence is moving towards a monopolistic situation, this too in a period of globalisation; The response to the monopolistic tendency in absence of constraint: is interesting too: reaction can only be non commercial (non constraints in a sense) since they can continue to exist without being swallowed up: non commercial forms emerge which in the long term could in theory render the commercial ones obsolete (in a period of non expansion); if an OS with the services it offers have been stable for a time, the non commercial ones should predominate: the commercial monopolising entity is forced to create change, new systems in order to resell itself, often to create its own market; It is possible to conceive of an OS that does not change even for years ,if it and the software fulfil the users' requirements; the current case appears to be more that commercial OS's fulfill the seller's requirement and not that of the buyer. The next phase: free OS's and software services made available by a (paid) service provider in competition with paid for OS's and paid software; I would predict that the first would win over the second (Google vs MS, Godzilla vs Ming Song); > > DJS > > > They will do, in fact they can do it at any time, MS > > can buy Borland > > even if they don't want to sell it (money can do > > everything ;) ). Difficult now to control the Internet or acquire Linux with only money; I heard it said that the Internet has antibodies that shield it from attempts to impose control: invade one part and it reforms elsewhere. Gerarchies can impose a vertical structure, but can never eliminate horizontal, 'collaborative' elements; no structure is totally gerarchical or totally collaborative; >>If > > borland is alive is because of the MS fear to the > > monopoly laws. MS has no need to acquire Borland: it can let it starve to death: the monopoly laws would be applied only if someone brings a suit, by now, I am not sure who that might be! It probably also suits the US to leave the MS monopoly situation where it is, since it is convenient at the level of the world market: internally within the US, some companies might be unhappy, but that is another question; Europe could have developed its own IT alternatives, but for the usual reasons (inertia, lack of collaboration, language and mutual competitivity), it never did so K ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
