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| Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, November 27 2012 @ 06:08 PM EST |
I actually removed that sentence, after more
thought. It's not fair to assume, and I'll
wait for more evidence before assuming that
Ericsson is part of the cabal.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 27 2012 @ 08:13 PM EST |
The problem (and it's pretty obvious) that MS, Oracle and Adobe etc see with
Linux and Android etc is that it is gratis.
There is very little proprietry software that cannot be replaced with something
that costs nothing except a little bit of work which you would have to do with
the propriety stuff anyway - if you could.
Their very businesses are at stake!
Apple is bit different because they sell hardware but software only businesses
that don't do support and customization as their main revenue stream are
doomed.
Chris B[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 27 2012 @ 10:20 PM EST |
Fleecing your customer is a much much harder proposition when what you sell has
been transformed into a commodity product. And Linux is the embodiment of a
commodity OS which scares not only MS but Apple and the other 'cabal' members
that spent big $$ to buy the Nortel patents.
This 'cabal' purchase was not a defensive move, rather it was an offensive
strategy to use these patents as a stick to fight off the degradation into a
commodity market, the effect of which is to maintain a high price for products
sold to the public by these cabal members.
From wikipedia, the purpose of the Sherman Act was "To protect the
consumers by preventing arrangements designed, or which tend, to advance the
cost of goods to the consumer".
To me, what the 'cabal' has done by purchasing the Nortel patents and jumping
into litigation only reinforces the view that it is the 'cabals' desire to kill
off any commodity OS the result of which only serves to maintain a high product
price for all consumers. It smacks of anti-competition behaviour and a restraint
of trade of open source software, whether it be OS, middleware or application
software. What's worse is that software patents, which can't exist if i
understood the comments from the SCOTUS correctly, are the instrument of this
anti-competitive attack on OSS.
I wonder why such collusion is allowed to go unpunished and why such restraint
of trade has not been addressed by the government as required by the Sherman
Act?
But then again, IAMAL so my views could all be wrong.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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