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> Office and Windows are good products and are highly successful because they > meet user needs, but they are also outrageously profitable. The high profits > are derived essentially because (a) there's a natural tendency in the user > community to converge on a single product, thus creating an effective > monopoly, and (b) the beneficiary of such a monopoly also benefits from the > existence of a copyright law that was designed to reward individual > impoverished writers but now allows mega-corporations to exploit the very > individuals it was designed to protect. I completely disagree with the 'impoverished writer' argument. I likewise disagree with the 'outrageous' description. To say nothing of the 'exploitation' inference. It's a product, the market has been willing to purchase it. Another product, unable to compete in commercial market, copies it's feature set. Dressing it up in rhetoric doesn't change that.
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