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[Michael Czeiszperger <czei AT webperformanceinc.com>]

Edward Wesolowski wrote:
> No question in my mind that MS standardization has created a market for 
> PC's where there was none, made work, helped personal and corporate 
> economies.

I agree that standardization has helped create markets. We differ in that I 
believe world wide, public standards have done much more to create markets 
than the defacto "standards" of a single company. In my opinion the main 
reason there was an explosion of startups and technology in the late 90's was 
because of HTTP, SNMP, TCP/IP, and all of the other public, free, and open 
standards.

The reason is simple-- when companies are free to compete on open standards 
consumers benefit because of the huge amount of new products and services that 
result. When companies are forced out of a market by a monopoly, the amount of 
investment in those areas are greatly reduced.

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Michael Czeiszperger
czei AT webperformanceinc.com