Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/26
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At 8:59 PM -0700 9/26/03, Mike Quinn wrote:
>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.
All very true, but Leica might then make money to R&D and produce the
things we like.
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