> Office and Windows are good products and are highly successful because
they
> meet user needs, but they are also outrageously profitable. The high
profits
> are derived essentially because (a) there's a natural tendency in the user
> community to converge on a single product, thus creating an effective
> monopoly, and (b) the beneficiary of such a monopoly also benefits from
the
> existence of a copyright law that was designed to reward individual
> impoverished writers but now allows mega-corporations to exploit the very
> individuals it was designed to protect.
I completely disagree with the 'impoverished writer' argument. I likewise
disagree with the 'outrageous' description. To say nothing of the
'exploitation' inference. It's a product, the market has been willing to
purchase it. Another product, unable to compete in commercial market,
copies it's feature set. Dressing it up in rhetoric doesn't change that.
