垄断 is both good or bad

来源: 2011-10-07 08:44:24 [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 本文已被阅读:

It is a way of enforcing industry standards - it is particularly important in the IT world.

A standard can significantly reduce development and training costs across industries.

It seems ironic, but it can actually reduce cost too, because of the economy of scale.

In retrospect, Wintel does the world more "good" than "bad".