Microsoft is monopoly in terms of texts softwares Apple is a monopoly too in terms of video and film industry and must die too
Apple is a new musical major ? Customize dont get a way with the ideia of files ... > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:30:41 -0700 > From: r...@robmyers.org > To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Why Microsoft Word (and Adobe) must Die > > On 14/10/13 12:44 PM, Eduardo Valle wrote: > > Microsoft must die ? > > Preferably, but in this case it's specifically Microsoft Word, a > specific piece of software originally created for the Macintosh. > > Stross explains the aesthetic and ethical problems with Word quite > clearly. It has a poorly thought out document model due to executive > marketing decisions, and forms a monopoly on document exchange that has > killed many more promising developments. > > Given this, its ongoing dominance is undeserved and an end to it would > be beneficial. > > > If you are now saying that thanks to the popularization of the > > "personal" computers by enterprises such IBM, Microsoft and Apple ... > > Do you want Adobe to die to ? > > Maybe it should ... > > It is. > > Flash is gone and Free alternatives to Creative Suite are becoming less > painful all the time. Adobe's copies of software from Xerox and Quantel > really have had their day. > > > Do you want the Gimp and others that emulates Adobe and Microsoft to die > > too ? > > > > The problem is that computers want to emulate paper ? Why ? And why the > > GUis are so shitty ? > > If the problem is the paradigm of office productivity applications then > possibly. Gimp et al have a different moral and affordative character > from Word or PhotoShop however. > > > Software is a product or a service ? In that sense all the products are > > quite bad ... > > It depends how it is used. SaaS is a thing, as is the subscription model > Adobe and Microsoft are desperate to move to. > > > Computers Programmers must think about Workshops on Customizing Programs ... > > Yes that's a very positive step. As is using software the user is Free > to modify all the way down. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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