(from the article)^^^^^^^^^Not only can more than one company rake in the dough, the other guys can alter your product any way they see fit, as long as they share these upgrades with everyone else. That's where the socialism rap comes in.^^^^^^^^^^
In Bill Gates' and Steve Jobs' reality-distorted worlds.
How hard is it to be an entrepreneur in a communist/socialist society? You get pushed out pretty quick by the brute force of the government, if you can even get your feet off the ground in the first place.
That sounds eerily like what Microsoft has done to quite a few of the competitors who've tried to challenge them. MS beat them with brute force, not a better product.
So what're you doing defending communists?
The hallmark of totalitarian ideologies is conformity and corporatism. In East Germany for example, you drove a Trabant, and that was pretty much all there is.
Go to Distrowatch and you'll see diversity in many combinations.
Communism? Hardly. This has lowered the entry barrier to e-commerce for many successful firms...and this website. :)
Regards, Ivan