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Why should Microsoft™ make so much money on such high profit margins, while IBM™ is struggling to make a profit? Why should selling hardware be a disadvantage? There is only so much money available for computer hardware/software purchases and everybody wishes that they had more money for both. What is the solution? Give away the software!!!
A giant corporation like IBM should write software that’s just as good or better than Microsoft’s, and put it in the public domain! They should write the software so that it works with all “IBM PC compatible” computers just like Microsoft’s does. They should encourage hardware vendors to bundle it with their hardware, so that these vendors can save money on paying royalties, and could, therefore sell their hardware at lower prices. The software would contain a toll free number, fax number and email address at IBM so that IBM could add to it’s mailing list of hardware/software customers.
The key is to eventually have a public domain operating system that’s as good as, or better than, Windows 2000 or Windows ME. Microsoft’s monopoly is good in the sense that they have established standards for a graphical user interface (GUI) for the whole world, but now that the standards have been established, it’s time to break Microsoft’s stranglehold on the industry, and only a large hardware manufacturer such as IBM has the financial muscle to do it. Also, in the “distant” past, IBM created the OS/2 operation system for the PC, which could be used as a starting point for creating a Windows 2000/ME competing product.
IBM could/should recruit other hardware manufacturers to share their code. If the code of more than one company goes to make up a public domain software project, the contact information from all of the companies involved could be included in the product. A product as extensive as a Windows 2000/ME equivalent could benefit greatly by participation of the entire computer hardware manufacturing industry.
Microsoft could retaliate by getting into the hardware business and by bundling their software with the hardware. Hardware vendors that currently bundle Microsoft software with their hardware would be terrified by the prospect of direct competition from Microsoft, but Microsoft could reassure them by promising not to sue if anyone “cloned” their software. If competing compatible versions of DOS, Windows, Word, Excel, etc. were available, a very healthy competitive climate would be created. Just as there are “ANSI” standard programming languages such as FORTRAN, COBAL and C++, there should be international standards for the graphical user interfaces for the operating system, and for spreadsheet and word processing programs.
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