Subject: Open vs proprietary strategies

From: Graham Klyne <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 08:48:55 +0000

At 21:50 06/11/98 +0100, Claus André Färber wrote:
>Writing broken software and making the lack of compliance the de-facto  
>standard is only possible for monopolists or monopolist-like companies.  
>Smaller software vendors would just fail with such a product strategy.

Also larger vendors.

It just takes longer for the failure to become apparent, so they have
greater opportunity to fix their strategy.

#g

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Graham Klyne
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