>Afraid I don't see where it reads that Bill says he's controlling it either:
I agreed for a while but admit that my paranoia has begun to set in after
mulling it over for the weekend.
Billy has a propensity towards control proven in the past (eg, Netscape
etc). The ability remains open for him to charge a small fee for
applications to gain a certificate that will allow it to be run. All very
innocent yet we are leaving up to a single supplier with an oligopoly large
enough to be a monopoly, the choice to be fair when they have proven in the
past not to have that ability.
Take the current registration process as an example. My prediction is that
once enough firms have registered for the next 2 years, Microsoft will
indeed come out with a new office version that will read older versions but
not write to that format.
This means that if you stuck with an older version of say, Word, then you
will be unable to read all those word documents that people keep sending
you and wanting you to read. This makes it a requirement to upgrade at any
cost. Especially if Microsoft makes it slightly annoying to load and read
older versions even if they do have the latest, as it will cause peer
pressure for smaller players to pay whatever is required to upgrade - and I
suspect at that stage it will require a full purchase.
So yes - some will see nothing wrong with that situation. For me, all the
little hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Steve
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