Article: Document or else

[Peter Neilson]

Lou Quillio wrote:

> The EU and Massachusetts are saying, "We know your game, and we're
> not playing any more."  Doesn't mean that MS and Adobe can't compete
> for EU business, just not with Office and Frame and Photoshop as
> currently engineered.

Nearly the same thing occurred, successfully, in the market
for rack-mounted lab equipment about 50 years ago. There had
been a plethora of proprietary standards for required power
supply voltages and for (analog at that time) signal levels.
The US DOD said, "We're not buying anything that does not
meet [some particular] mil-spec standard." The manufacturers
quickly turned to making all their equipment match the
standard.

It sometimes helps to be a gorilla.