<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:56 AM, David Farning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfarning@activitycentral.com" target="_blank">dfarning@activitycentral.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":py" style="overflow:hidden">The highest rate of progress happens when the parties focus on getting<br>
ahead of the other guys rather then when they focus on holding others<br>
back. Progress tends to stop when one party gets so far ahead that it<br>
is not worth it for others to compete.</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>I don't disagree, but I would qualify that: The highest rate of progress happens when the parties focus on getting ahead of the other guys by changing the game. This is why I maintain that GNU/Linux distros considering each other as competitors is pointless at the end of the day when 92% or so of the desktop/laptop market is running MS Windows.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sean</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div></div>