From: Adam Flinton 

Geo. wrote:
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:3ecf49f4{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>
>>Pure economic forces can work w/o any gov intervention so long as there
>>is choice. Linux is demonstrably a "valid choice" &
is becoming more so
>>with every passing month.
>
>
> As long as the different OS require different application software, there is
> no valid choice. If you want to run Autocad or PageMaker or Maya or any of
> thousands of other platform specific software then you go with the platform
> it runs on, there is no choice involved if your purpose is set.
>


To a degree you are correct. However in the above case you are doubly
caught by by the App & thus the OS.

So would you then also look at forcing dominant app vendors (e.g. AutoCAD)
to drop their prices etc as well or simply to port onto other OS'es or
both?

Adam

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