Re: Microsoft’s Linux Strategy

Yes. If anybody tries to charge monopoly rent as the economists call it
they are likely to find somebody has found a way to do the same or better
using Open Source.
Rod

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 20:02, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:25:49 +1200, Roderick Aldridge wrote:
>
> > Yes. I just hope that Open Source gets a fair share of the
> > (financial) cake in the process.
>
> That may or may not happen, and it may or may not matter. Open Source
> is already having a massively deflationary effect on the entire
> software industry. Instead of having to develop entire systems from
> scratch, being able to download a bunch of free toolkits to use as a
> starting point has I think made a big improvement to both productivity
> and costs, across a whole range of industries.
>
> Or, to put it another way, nobody in the Open Source world is going to
> be as wealthy as Bill Gates.
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