Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> writes:
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 08:23:58 -0800 (PST) From: mark@unicorn.com Subject: Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig
Of course there's a free-market remedy for Microsoft; eliminate copyright. anyone can copy Microsoft software for free, it would be forced to compete on real benefits rather than installed base.
If there were no copyright nobody would have any reason to market software or much else for that matter. I would predict that much of the technology and infrastructure we have now wouldn't exist. It would also stiffle creativity and new methodologies because there would be no profit in it to recoup development costs. Those who would survive in such a market would be the 800-lb gorillas because only they would have the resources to squash the smaller companies.
Software development seems to be thriving in countries that aren't very keen on enforcing copyright laws - do you care to explain why?
Free markets monopolize.
Hmm... There's no copyright on perfumes. There are market leaders in perfumes, but no monopoly; hardly even an olygopoly. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps