[austincheney]

> How is software different than any other product?

Software is unregulated.

> Competition is not only real

You are imagining an unstated opinion. I never claimed competition is absent from software but that software developers make decisions without regard for that competition and impose those decisions upon their products without regard for their users or business revenue.

> Companies who develop products without regard for consumer demand or the competition are eventually unemployed.

That sounds like hyperbole. Advertising companies, as an example, do very well without regard for competition or the end user. Companies will continue so long as they are cash flow positive.