On Tue, 07 Jun 1994 14:26:30 -0700 Paul Cockshott wrote,
>Alan Issac asks if price competition might not be the
> motive force behind innovation.
>My objection to the term price competition is that it is a
> superficial concept drawn from a problematic that focusses on the
> interaction b
On Tue, 07 Jun 1994 17:28:39 -0700, Sam Lanfranco writes,
> If one uses concentration ratios, rather than numbers of players
> on the field, as a measure of market concentration, the Oligopoly
> "done come", as they used to say about the train where I grew up.
Of course, these questions c
On Tue, 07 Jun 1994 16:54:07 -0700, Andrew W. Hagen wrote,
> On Tue, 7 Jun 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> But of course, Novell just bought WordPerfect and Borland's Quattro
>> Pro spreadsheet, so oligopoly simply be moving from hardware to
>> software.
>
> Novell might be attempting to im
On Tue, 7 Jun 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But of course, Novell just bought WordPerfect and Borland's Quattro
> Pro spreadsheet, so oligopoly simply be moving from hardware to software.
Novell might be attempting to improve Quattro Pro and WordPerfect,
OfficePerfect, and the other WP
The plummetting price per mip of computer processors
(and more generally price per transistor of computer chips) does not
fully explain the falling price of microcomputers. Apple, for example,
dropped its mark-up as its market niche was invaded by 80386&up PC's
running Windows, and over the l
On Mon, 30 May 1994 13:24:45 -0700, Paul C. argued that:
> Computers are cheaper now because their value is lower than
> 5 years ago. The process of production of any manufactured article
> is a process of information transmission in which information and
> energy are used to cause a material syst
Computers are cheaper now because their value is lower than
5 years ago. The process of production of any manufactured article
is a process of information transmission in which information and
energy are used to cause a material system to take up an inprobable
state. In the case of the computer in
