On 4 Dec 2005, at 00:28, Chris Olson wrote: > On Dec 3, 2005, at 1:40 PM, Dr Trevor J. Hutley wrote: > >> marketing and monopoly > > Right. Basically the best designed products (aka Mac OS/PowerPC) > rarely make it into the hands of the consumer in dominant numbers. > The best marketed (aka Windows/x86) do. > > The one that loses in the end is the consumer. which of course is what a monopoly is: a dominant power that makes money at the expense of the consumer. Trevor