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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (5349)6/8/2000 7:56:00 PM
From: Clarksterh   of 34857
 
Tero - The whole point of GPRS was that the open standard approach *works*.

Sure - but that doesn't make it not a tactic like any other. Other, very important, companies have used other tactics and been very successful. Which tactic you use is dependent on what your strengths are. A manufacturing house, relatively weak in technology, would obviously favor an open standard. A technology house has a different perspective. An entrenched monopoly has yet another persepctive. The key is picking the right tactic for the right company. Microsoft, as an entrenched monopoly, uses the include (a standard), enfold (control the standard), destroy (make it non-standard) method which works well for them.

BTW - You must be kidding if you think that the GPRS backers didn't think about *why* open was better. And high on the list was probably that an open standard will attract more manufacturers (which are no threat to the backers) and buzz than a closed standard but without threatening their base (i.e. manufacturing).

Clark
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