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Re: Any commerical s/w category that has partially or totally collapsed due to the cr

Michael B. Johnson

2005-04-07, 8:58 pm

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:11:33 -0400, "noname" <noname@noname.local>
wrote:

>Is anyone aware of any category of commercial software that has experienced
>a partial or total collapse due to the creation of a free/open source
>project?

Not an entire category, no. There have probably been some specific
shareware software applications that have suffered individually due to
freeware and Open Source/Free Software, but I can't come up with a
specific example at the moment. Perhaps some calculator programs on
the Palm that were obliterated by EasyCalc appearing on the scene?
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