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Old 06-04-2008, 03:25 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by Walk Broad View Post
No monopoly has ever been good for the consumer.
So we agree

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But at the same time, we have to understand this is the cost of doing business for the things we want/need/like. As we continue down the electronic age, I'm sure this issue will come up again.
That is where we differ - you can do business in two ways. Either you can simply aim for middle or short term profit or for long term profit - and I am very sorry to see that most companies aim for the first.

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The best we can do is to continue to rally for change or not purchase from said companies and protect ourselves as best we can.
That is what I wanted to achieve. You can only force business into something helpful for yourself by not buying there.
So - abandoning shops/publishers/etc using DRM or trying to enforce a monopol would actually be a way to get nicer formats, better service, etc

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ePub / HTML are great universal formats, but all corporations exist to increase the wealth of the shareholders. If they can get more people onto a proprietary system the better to lock in their profits by locking in customers.
That is again not true in my opinion - have a look at the current development of open document standards vs the previous closed standards. It is the same for the music or for office formats - they are switching to open standards because closed standards are really no way to go. Not even if you try to hold customers...
I dont know why CEOs and share holders still believe in "closed formats" - there is actually no sense in them.

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It's simple business economics. They really don't give a rat's patotey about longetivity. In their corporate mind, their corporation is going to be around forever anyway. None of them "plan" to go out of business.
Yeah. And none of them think for the next 5 years - at least thats my current view of the problem ...
And pissing off your customers really is not a good business strategy. As "company founder seminars" keep repeating ... One completely satisfied customer means three customers won. One annoyed customer means seven customers lost.

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Looking at it from their perspective (short-term, profit motivated) why should they use a more open standard? Because it is the kinder, gentler thing?
Yeah. Short-term motivation is one of the key problems of todays economy. Oh well, that's not the topic here

It seems we agree in quite a number of positions. And as long as we both agree that monopols or market-domination are bad things, I can live with it
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