I wonder what Gates position would be? Some products shrink markets. (Easy example in Encyclopedias. Books==$$$$, Encarta/WorldBook==$, Wikipedia==FREE) I t

I wonder what Gates position would be? Some products shrink markets. (Easy example in Encyclopedias. Books==$$$$, Encarta/WorldBook==$, Wikipedia==FREE) I think NetDocs would be one of those. I guess the question is - from a business standpoint - why do you want go from leading your own $10 Billion industry to leading your own $100 Million industry? *Note that figures are utterly made up. As leading shareholder, BillyG has an interest in Microsoft making money (It funds his work in Africa for one thing!).... I guess it's an industry that Open Source and other players (eg Google) can eventually destroy on their own, but I'm not 100% sure that BillyG would have so quickly destroyed it... I guess the issue might be one of pricing though --> and in 2000 MS could have released NetDocs at similar pricing levels to Office - and that might have changed things.. But letting Google etc come in to the market for free before they had the presence, has probably hasn't the end... (Sorry for the rambling - Have to run..)