[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Tobin) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Kastrup > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> The anticompetitive nature of the GNU GPL is no-brainer. > >>That must explain why there is _lots_ of competition in the Linux >>market. > > Surely the claim must be that it is damaging to competition in the > market for operating systems as a whole, rather than within the > Linux market itself?
But the Linux market is not separate from the operating systems market. Linux is damaging to _competitors_ in the market for operating systems, because it opens wide the possibilities for _competition_. But if those competitors find that the presence of Linux makes their own products less attractive, they are free to revert to selling Linux themselves and continue competing. And indeed, it appears that Sun is going that route right now. HP did this earlier on. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
