By Martin Brampton
Published: Tuesday 06 January 2004
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Name
Jeremy Chatfield
Location
England
Occupation
Business/IT Consultant
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Define "50% share"! By selecting the definition, you tune products in and out. Who makes the definition? Would Microsoft suddenly find that Linux was a lot more successful than anyone had thought?
Consider Apple. They have 100% of the "personal computer with integrated OS" market. Does this mean that OS/X must be free? Free to run on... what?
I like the thrust of the idea, but as a programmer with marketing experience, I don't think this can work.
Surely the big companies would just use their lawe...
Anonymous
While this is an ok idea, why not just make everyt...
Dominic Tristram
In theory it would be easy to measure the market s...
David Sparkes
I had been campaining for the past over 3 years fo...
Cristian Nicola
Define "50% share"! By selecting the definition, y...
Jeremy Chatfield
Patents were intended to protect an inventor from ...
Anonymous
Cristian Nicola has the right idea. Once a product...
Brian Charlwood
Isn't this how Microsoft got big.
The old (MSDO...
Paul W
Innovation would surely suffer with this approach....
Anonymous
I, too, am concerned about the definition of "50% ...
Tom Hunt
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