May 1, 2001

• ooooh! this new premium feature in xanga is cool

  
  

  all this spellchecking and fonts and things....all this reminds me of things that have been on my mind after i had been studying econ.

  
  

  i was thinking of how to break monopolies. Probably the idea has existed in theory for quite a while, but it's just something at the top of my mind right now so i wanna blog about it for blogging's sake, plus, i get to play with the new features!.

  
  

  Using miKrowsoft just for discussion's sake: let's assume that it has a total monopoly in the market of operating systems. how on earth do you break that stranglehold in theory (this is all very basic and i haven't really thought it through, so there is bound to be holes in my reasoning) ?

  
  

  To achieve this, mebbe the following things could be done:

  
  

  
  
  • find out the flaws in the OS
    
  • find out the programming behind the OS etc and how software is programmed to be compatible with it
    
  • come out with your own OS that improves on these flaws and is compatible with the majority of existing software
    
  • enter the market with a niche group and market agressively - you must have very very generous seed and venture capitalists to compete with miKrowsoft

  
  

  so anyway, those are the overly-simplistic seeds of my ramblings amid the overgrown tangle of my mind. maybe i'll think about it a bit more and refine it one day.

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