<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Richter</b> <<a href="mailto:ttmrichter@gmail.com">ttmrichter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;">I know just how likely it is that a small company is going to give away its competitive edge to a bunch of what amounts to anti-commerce communists.</div></blockquote><div><br><br>Let the market decide. I will not subscribe to an ISP that requires me to run a windows-only dialer application to connect a modem to the internet. There is no competitive edge to making non-windows users lives difficult.
<br><br>I see your point, but I think it only really applies to a very small percentage of the applications that some companies "support" when you buy something with the name of an OS written on the box. <br><br>
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Give these people a business case -- and by "business case" I mean "orders in the range of millions" and they might just start seeing a competitive advantage in releasing their source. But with Linux being the fringe market it is now, it's simply not worth it.
</div></blockquote><div><br><br>That's why we're here, no?<br><br><br><br>azz<br><br></div></div>