whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...r more than just a present situation. What is different about Microsoft converting their popularity into a monopoly \"rent\" situation from Facebook or Google doing the same thing? Net Neutrality,...

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Unfortunately Skype is effectively a global monopoly. The only way to avoid the perpetuation of monopolies at a global scale is to insist on open technologies, and open standards.

3. The hazard of market dominance
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In an average retail business, overall profit margins can be anywhere between 10% to 20%. That means that the business only makes a profit from four or five days of every month. If a business loses a

4. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
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Governments do not know anything about competition, innovation or the power of individual investment. The best they can offer is collective blame shedding and the waste of taxpayers' money on pop

5. This festive season: the accumulating effects of individual activity
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...ing dinner, bathing, and watching television. In small family groups. Given that South African electricity monopoly, Eskom, hasn't invested in their network for thirty years these effects are imp...

6. The spectre of loyalty over ability
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...s incapable of delivering services. He has chosen to develop new broadband capacity via a state-subsidised monopoly called Infraco. Mbeki's support of his most incompetent ministers is a clear m...

7. Suburbanise! How aid and trade obliterate unique cultures
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...ners are sought. If there are no local partners then they stay away unless they can guarantee themselves a monopoly. So, for instance, US companies wanting to do business in China look for local par...

8. The US$ 5 trillion market at the bottom of the pyramid
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... poor will become so agitated that the rich are targeted.  The informal economy is essentially a local monopoly; inefficient and abusive of an asymmetry of information.” There are profits ...

9. Joost minds the baby: what happens to state control when technology passes them by?
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...ready users of Skype and significantly reduce their cost of Telkom, the exorbitant state telecommunications monopoly, calls.  Joost threatens to bypass the South African Broadcasting Corporation ...

10. The Tyranny of Red Lights
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...you will suffer the consequences.”  And so we sit and watch the red lights. Governments have no monopoly on the future.  They have no idea what is going to happen next any more than w...

11. What do toilet paper and state monopolies have in common?
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...ing songs from Apple iTunes. Yet this is precisely what Telkom, the South African state telecommunications monopoly does.  They cap bandwidth.  They cap telephone bills.  They cap line...