whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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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.

2. The spectre of loyalty over ability
(Analysis/Analysis)

... business sector relies not on competitive innovation to keep their customers, but on the protection of being monopolies or oligopolies; where a few companies are able to keep out any new entrants thr...

3. Dave Bullard and Graham Knox: "We can't walk on water so why not try wine?"
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ine industry," says an impassioned wine writer. More succinctly, misdirected legislation reinforces the monopolies of the big manufacturers (Distel, KWV and SABMiller) allowing them to control t...

4. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
(Analysis/Analysis)

...es.  The same is true of South Africa. Not so in the US where the government physically dismantled their monopolies and created real competition.  It is no surprise that Apple, basing their ...

5. Cricket, corruption and the match-fixing that leads to murder
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ance (like the current rolling power-outages) on mysterious third-forces. The same is true of numerous state-monopolies; from Gazprom in Russia, to Airbus in Europe. CEOs may come and go, but the ce...

6. Joost minds the baby: what happens to state control when technology passes them by?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ty, for governments, is that by refusing to engage with the process – by indulging in maintaining their monopolies – they are left calamitously behind.  The most productive members of...

7. What do toilet paper and state monopolies have in common?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...p; Supply considered so essential by the state that it must be guaranteed through the creation of state-owned monopolies.  State monopolies so autocratic that no competitive products are allowed?...

8. Africa falling ever further behind, says UN
(Analysis/Analysis)

... higher oil prices to producers and consumers." There is much that can be done.  Inefficient state monopolies can be deregulated allowing new businesses to be created.  Legal systems c...