Comments on: Microsoft Monopoly fact, fiction, and Open Source opportunity http://ossg.bcs.org/2005/03/19/microsoft-monopoly-fact-fiction-and-open-source-opportunity/ A Specialist Group of the British Computer Society Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:14:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: dcorking http://ossg.bcs.org/2005/03/19/microsoft-monopoly-fact-fiction-and-open-source-opportunity/#comment-67 dcorking Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:57:00 +0000 http://ossg.bcs.org/2005/03/19/microsoft-monopoly-fact-fiction-and-open-source-opportunity/#comment-67 <h5>Microsoft Monopoly fact, fiction, and Open Source opportunity</h5> Challenging article! Monopoly doesn't just mean absence of choice. It means dominant control of a market, and it means barriers to choice. Open source advocates can do something about the barriers to choice. For example, we can minimize the spread of proprietary formats such as .doc and .xls. And we can promote more manageable and flexible approaches to content sharing and creation, such as the Plone technology used on the OSSG site. David Corking Microsoft Monopoly fact, fiction, and Open Source opportunity

Challenging article!

Monopoly doesn’t just mean absence of choice. It means dominant control of a market, and it means barriers to choice.

Open source advocates can do something about the barriers to choice. For example, we can minimize the spread of proprietary formats such as .doc and .xls. And we can promote more manageable and flexible approaches to content sharing and creation, such as the Plone technology used on the OSSG site.

David Corking

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