[izacus]

Unless developers of the open system get their life destroyed by patent law suits. Stop believing in the free market fairy tale when there's so many ways available for the corporations to break and stop the basic requirement: competition.

[narrowrail]

The free market ideal, as I understand it, is something more like physicists saying, "in a perfect vacuum." It is an ideal to be considered, not a destination.

[xg15]

That doesn't seem to keep people from using the assumption in practice though - which leads to lot of "for a perfectly spherical cow" moments...