Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Last time I checked, if you want an office suite, you can buy MS Office 
> or...

Open Office, Corel, Quark, LaTeX et al, Google Docs, whatever Apple sells, 
WordPerfect, etc etc etc....  Now, some of these may be out of business, but 
that's not really to the point, because they *were* competition when they 
were around, and they couldn't compete.

> MS carefully arranges it so that users have no alternatives.

No, it's because makign a full-featured office suite that people will want 
to use is *hard* and *expensive*. Nobody *wants* to compete, because 
Microsoft already has a product. Big consumer-grade software is a natural 
monopoly.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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