Microsoft (was Re: Isn't spontanious order overrated?)

From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Tue Sep 08 1998 - 10:42:44 MDT


Peter C. McCluskey [pcm@rahul.net] wrote:
>A system in which copyright owners funded the enforcement would almost
>certainly have produced the same kind of results.

But their costs would be significantly higher, so would they have more competition thanks to higher software prices, and/or they wouldn't make
as much profit and wouldn't have been able to expand anywhere near as fast.
Not to mention that enforcement outside the US would be much harder than it
is today with compliant foreign governments.

    Mark



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