scott wrote:
>> It's the Microsoft philosophy: Why bother designing a superior product 
>> when you can just eliminate all the competing ones?
> 
> All (successful) companies work the same way:
> 
> A = estimated costs for developing with X man hours of resources
> B = estimated sales income after X man hours of development
> 
> Choose X to maximise (B-A)
> 
> It's not quite that simple, but you get the idea that after a certain 
> point your profit goes *down* the bigger X is.

My point being that other companies work by making a product that is 
good enough that people will want to buy it. Microsoft works by 
preventing anybody else making anything better.

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