Z:gnu-www-ja-free-world--279eb4-Software companies that are ab/en

Software companies that are able to thwart competition attain pinnacles of power which are inconceivable in other industries. Partly this is due to the enormous cash flows that are possible in the absence of competition from products with nil reproduction costs, but largely it is due to the complexity of software itself, which allows dominant companies to design &ldquo;standards&rdquo; which exclude future competition.