micro$haft wants your ass
linuxmaillists at charter.net
linuxmaillists at charter.net
Tue May 15 00:02:21 UTC 2007
Think about this, if you are in business and your main
reason for success is some very effective (never mind if it
is ethical or not) marketing strategy and eventually the
competitor (that you laughed at and ignored) begins to
advance on your market share because your customers realize
that the competitive products really are better and start
to use the competitors products along with yours and are
happy with the arrangement and you start attacking them in
court, how long do you think you will stay in business?
Here is a real world situation that has already come to
pass. The US based General Motors Corporation dominated the
automotive world in the 70s and the Oldsmobile Cutlass line
of cars alone were the hottest selling cars across the
board, out selling all others makes and models combined.
The Honda, Toyota and Datsun (now Nissan) had just been
introduced to the US market. They were laughed at and
ignored by the three US auto manufactures. Coming back to
the present The Toyota Corporation has now taken the lions
share of the market in the US (and may be else where) and
the Oldsmobile line of the US based GM group does not even
exist now. GM, Ford and Chrysler are all struggling to stay
in business and are beginning to adopt the methods of the
other three as well as doing joint ventures with them
hoping they will stay in business. I watched the shift in
the automotive industry over the last 40 years. I was in
it for nearly 20 years. I see a similar thing in the
software industry.
Said all that to say this, MS can't win, because even if
they did win the court battle they still lose the war
because they will be biting the hand that feeds them. A
business can't attack its customer and its competitors and
be able to stay in business for very long after, because
the customers and the competitors will retaliate.
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