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>I think this applies often to price for product but less often to quality >of product. Look at 20 years of robust competition in the clone market >and IME they still haven't come up with a product that would make me say >`this is better value than my Amiga' 🙂 Lu, I think you are missing something. The intense competition in the clone market was a result of IBM either not enforcing their patent right, or not be able to for some reason (I have never heard a good explanation for this, anybody know?). The base technology was not good, but competition has lead to clones that maximize the meager potential of the techonology. So competition did produce a superior product, in its own restricted domain. Imagine what would happen if Amiga technology were as open! ._ _ _ INTERNET: mshea@math.arizona.edu | | |ichael _>hea COMPUSERVE: 76665,3360