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Originally posted by VoidMain:
It's a long read but well worth it:
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24858.html
Void,
this leter is fantastic!
The man's diction is beutifull. I love things that are well written like this. I feel like I'm reading Kant or Socrates examining a subject, and just like Socrates our friend in this letter veils his attacks with precission
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It is necessary to stress that there is no position more anti-competitive than that of the big software producers, which frequently abuse their dominant position, since in innumerable cases they propose as a solution to problems raised by users: "update your software to the new version" (at the user's expense, naturally); furthermore, it is common to find arbitrary cessation of technical help for products, which, in the provider's judgement alone, are "old"; and so, to receive any kind of technical assistance, the user finds himself forced to migrate to new versions (with non-trivial costs, especially as changes in hardware platform are often involved). And as the whole infrastructure is based on proprietary data formats, the user stays "trapped" in the need to continue using products from the same supplier, or to make the huge effort to change to another environment (probably also proprietary).
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Hmmm.... I wonder who he might be refering to
This is fantastic! I would love to see it in the origional spanish.
