From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 19 10:58: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from parsons.rh.rit.edu (65fndial18.ncweb.com [216.28.65.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D53C7156D4 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:58:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mfisher@csh.rit.edu) Received: from mfisher (helo=localhost) by parsons.rh.rit.edu with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11otEb-0003Fz-00 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:58:13 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:58:11 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher X-Sender: mfisher@mfisher.fis To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Marketing vs. technical superiority (was: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit") In-Reply-To: <000401bf3275$9dcc7d50$021d85d1@youwant.to> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > What's actually puzzling is why software prices in markets > dominated by one company are as low as they are. One theory is that This is an interesting point. I read sometime in the last week (sorry, I couldn't find the reference) that a study has been done on prices of software recently. For the given period of time when the samples were taken, the average price of software decreased by 15%. The exception to this, however, is in markets Microsoft has entered and produced a dominating product. In these markets, the price has dropped by 65%. - -- Mike "The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian." -- Murray Rothbard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0i Comment: Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBODWdxANoiUfuQq8NEQKotQCg44Nxbv3ZawcC9hO6IsLhVK8UjSsAn2uB B3U3ghRBAkuRZAXMSbukD3u7 =H9qH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message