Customer Choice

Look around in your local area or on the web to find numerous 
examples of 'monopoly type' industries which are having to adapt due 
to government intervention for consumer choice.  The example isn't a 
direct comparison to software usage, but give it some more time.

ATT >> 7 Baby Bells >> Long Distance ( now anybody can provide )

The phone company might have been the first, but now electric & gas 
companies are in the same boat.  There are a whole lot of laws which 
give customers freedom to chose a vendor.  Perhaps one of them will 
permit us to choose Hercules and get IBM to offer their products 
without discrimination against a 'PCM' they don't know how to price 
for.  It could be they just wish to restrain this paticular area of 
trade period, although I think that might be illegal.

Phil - back when I have more time for this, gotta go


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