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AndrewWatt2000@aol.com writes:
> It seems to me that Tim misses an important point that Microsoft,
> and other proprietary vendors **need** what Tim refers to as
> sharecroppers.
They need sharecroppers in general, but they don't need any
sharecropper in particular, especially not the uppity ones who get too
much attention.
I do think that Tim overstated the case, but not in an obvious way. I
wouldn't object to building a software product specifically for a
closed-source platform, but I would do so only if I could reasonably
hope to amortize the development costs over, say, 18 months or less of
sales. Past that point, the risks that Tim describes become more and
more significant.
All the best,
David
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David Megginson, david@megginson.com, http://www.megginson.com/
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