[ Thanks to Erik
Poupaert for this link. ]
“There are the following secret agreements in place:
* The hardware vendor secretly negotiates with the OS vendor not
to publish a device driver for any other OS, and to keep the source
code and specifiations for the wire protocol secret.
* The OS vendor, in exchange promises that the next version for his
OS will not support the device drivers for the previous
version.
* The cartel of proprietary software vendors promises to publish
the next version of their software that is only able to run on the
next version of the OS and not on the previous version. The cartel
also makes sure that the new document formats cannot be understood
by the older versions of their programs.”