>> When you suppress competition instead of reinventing yourself and retaining/attracting users that way - you are basically done. Tell that to Oracle. If a c

>> When you suppress competition instead of reinventing yourself and retaining/attracting users that way - you are basically done. Tell that to Oracle. If a company can get its hooks into something, I think they can keep it going for a very long time. Also, ever since Microsoft achieved dominance over the PC market, they've been coasting along nicely - Leveraging their legacy (Windows server -> Azure, also many patents) - MS never had to compete on the same level as all the others who had to start from scratch... Some old leaves of their business peel off and new ones grow in their place.