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Story: Linux: The forking fight-back

Posted by: Arthur B. (Monday 7 February 2005, 11:34 PM)

Perhaps people have forgotten how a free market is suppose to work.

In a real free market there are no ways to limit consumer choice other then by providing good quality solutions at competitive prices. Should someone not be able to provide that then somebody else will. Thus enabling the 'better species' (Darwin anyone?) to become dominant until the environment (the needs of the masses) changes and the former 'better species' better adapt to the new environment fast enough or some other 'better species' will become dominant (the innovation need for speed).

Since it stands to reason that good interoperability will be part of the demands required from a 'better species' it's fair to say that in a real free market good interoperability will be no problem at all.

And given the free market nature of Open Source today the mechanics of ensuring good interoperability are already in place today.
Not complying to such Darwinian laws would find any Open Source solution sidetracked and quickly replaced by something else that does. Basicly it's a safety mechanism. Even mistakes are quickly minimized (by means of lesser demand) and thus turned into a thing of the past faster then the PR department of a typical company could change it's PR theme.