Quote Originally Posted by mockingbird View Post
Very interesting.

Thanks for the read.

It made me wonder whether we really need competition in the market. It's obviously evident that most of the research money that has gone towards these engineering processes must have come from income taxes and other taxes of people around the world.

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Coupled with that that programmers would have been held responsible for their bloated software (Cough *microsoft* cough *linux too*), more programmers would have been employed, and thus more people would be able to afford adequate technologies for their purposes.*snip*
You are forgetting something - No competition means the only guy calls the shots on the prices, so no, more people couldn't afford the technologies, rather fewer would That dothan you referred to would very possibly be a premium chip to be had for $500+ if it was a one player field

Competition keeps both parties honest... well, sort of anyway, they can't go too far off the deep end at least.