"So I guess under the forced "open source" types of standard" I would be coerced to receal the code, methodologies, and man-years of work I out into my proprietary materials so all of my competitors can take advantage of it. There is no impetus to strive here. It more than borders on socialism and is definitely not capitalistic, reducing the concept of intellectual property and competitive trade secrets to that of rubble."
Well,
If you deliberately choose to paraphrase things in this way, it will be difficult to communicate with you. We are not discussing intellectual property rights and/or competitive trade secrets being reduced to rubble. That is simply your inflammatory rhetoric.
What I am suggesting is that low level standards are agreed upon. The cell phone industry manages to achieve it, the disk drive industry did it, the TV industry did it, construction of houses would not be feasible without it and so on.
"If you were a business student, revisit your equity analysis classes. the primary assessment of risk starts adn end with management, not the underlying technology and not pre-existing market presence. As a matter of fact, during my short lifetime, the superior technology has lost out more times than not - in software, videotapes, automobile engines and other markets."
Once again, you distort the argument to serve yourself. I am surprised you even bothered to answer my post. The key point is that no assessment of risk is good enough when there exists one competitor who can obliterate your particular company. Even your "primary assessment" won't do you any good once MS starts competing on your turf if you have to get sell your product through the Windows distribution channel.
Good luck in your search for reality.
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