Digital BW, The Print

bwinkjet wrote:

> In the long run 
>no 3rd party ink developer will further progress in this area like 
>Epson, Canon or HP will out of the need to be competitive and grab 
>market share.
>
>  
>
That's like saying that major auto manufacturers should be able to sell 
proprietary gasoline or oil for their vehicles, because only they, not 
gasoline or petrochemical companies will do the work to create 
automobiles of such quality. It's a chimeric paper tiger.

It's the same argument people offered about telephone products when the 
whole AT&T breakup lawsuit process began. "Only AT&T  can produce those 
nice high quality phones we get, they underwrite the cost through the 
telephone charges." Frankly, it's a pathetic argument for maintaining a 
monopoly. We have more telephone hardware options than ever, a plethora 
of providers for that hardware, etc. that would not have existed absent 
the breakup. Monopolies by their inherent nature stifle innovation and 
development, they only superficially seem to advance it.

If you are simply choosing to side with monopolists because you are 
comfortable with the current product-set and the status quo, fine, say 
so.  Please don't try putting lipstick on the pig by asserting as 
complete fallacy about technological advancement. No matter how much 
makeup you trowel on, it'll still be a pig underneath it all.
Keith

 
Keith Krebs

"Just some guy," caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:
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"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"

 

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