The Simple Economics of Open Source

Jim Richardson warlock at eskimo.com
Sun Apr 30 14:36:25 EDT 2000


On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 14:30:11 -0400, 
 Gordon McMillan, in the persona of <gmcm at hypernet.com>,
 brought forth the following words...:

>Richard Hale wrote:
>
>> CP/M was the OS "monopoly" of its day.  A perfect illustration of
>> how success breeds failure and how every trend has within it the
>> seeds of its own destruction.
>> 
>> It must be Microsoft's turn now!?
>
>Hmmm. Despite being fat, MS remains surprisingly hungry.
>
Tapeworms will do that  :)

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Jim Richardson
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