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This doesn't seem to advocate for open source, so much as for open standards. The problem he observes with MegaCorp Office 2010, as he transparently terms it,
by amalcon 16y ago
This doesn't seem to advocate for open source, so much as for open standards. The problem he observes with MegaCorp Office 2010, as he transparently terms it, is not that it's difficult for the general public to add features or fix bugs. The problem is that it's nearly impossible to compete with due to network effects, and that problem would be alleviated by an open standard.
- rbanffy 16y ago"Open Source promotes a more efficient market because competition is not shut out so easily". The problem the article describes is more in the open-standards direction, however. It also confuses communism with dictatorship, an idea I thought we left behind around the 80s.