Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nonsense. Gates is a broker. He has never understood (good) programming, never updates unless forced to, prefers to buy up or drive out (rather than outprogram) the competition, and spends million to create (rather than meet) demand. He does price product within the reach of the consumer (after killing off the competition by giving it away until they fold). If leica followed the MS example, it would buy (or otherwise acquire) Minolta designs, degrade them a bit, and then spend lots of time and effort (1) preventing dealers from selling or stocking anything else and (2) secretly changing film to keep it from working correctly in competitor's cameras. Mike Quinn Afterswift@aol.com wrote: > Gates's genius is > that he knows programming, keeps his software up to date, prices it within > middle class reach, can mobilize hundreds of programmers to catch up with the > competition and outwrite them, has a brilliant legal staff to cover his > tracks, can > buy out the competition and concentrate on where the demand is. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html