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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by MP173 I knew the Microsoft reference would set folks off! That is about as close to captive customer base as one can find. Yet their revenue to asset ratio is not that high. ed [/quote] I wasn't thinking of Microsoft, but past antitrust actions in the computer industry do raise some potential problems for Open Access. A number of years ago as a result of an antitrust case, IBM was ordered to un-bundle large mainframe computer hardware and software in order to promote competition in that market segment. The end result was a few independent hardware vendors accounting for minimal market share, and increased revenue for IBM due to higher overall pricing. IBM dominates that market today. In part because of that, when IBM invented the PC it was released as an open architecture platform. Clones were allowed and anyone could and still can write software for it, including operating systems. That didn't stop Microsoft from dominating and a large part of their defense in the antitrust cases has been that the platform is open and competitors are free to enter the market. Both show what could potentially happen if Open Access is imposed and no one comes to run the trains.
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