Linux is fruit juice, Windows is cola
Posted by Graeme in Market failure,Software at 9:37 pm on Tuesday, 18 November 2008
A discussion about why Linux has been so slow to take off made be realise that, essentially, Windows is like cola, Linux is like fruit juice. Its marketing that matters. (more…)
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Product specifications and consumer stupidity
Posted by Graeme in Market failure at 7:28 am on Friday, 14 November 2008
New research provides more evidence that people simply are not rational in choosing what they buy, a fundamental assumption of economics. I have previously discussed problems including consumers inability to understand many products.
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Patent on patenting others’ inventions
Posted by Graeme in Economics at 8:16 am on Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Halliburton (it would be) have patented an aspect of patent trolling: reverse engineering other people’s trade secrets using a patent, patenting the (former!) trade secret and then suing the original inventor. (more…)
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