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Microsoft Windows, Office and [[mediawiki]] are clear examples of this phenomenon. The developers of both have strongly resisted any standardization that would allow any outside developers, much more competent as a rule, to compete with them to "manage" the vast [[text corpus]] stored using these user interfaces. | Microsoft Windows, Office and [[mediawiki]] are clear examples of this phenomenon. The developers of both have strongly resisted any standardization that would allow any outside developers, much more competent as a rule, to compete with them to "manage" the vast [[text corpus]] stored using these user interfaces. | ||
The most vicious offenders are writers of [[free software]] who try to destroy all competitors by offering their programs free of charge. By allowing anyone who cares to do so to examine and reuse the program's source code and parsing functions, they hope to eliminate the possibility that anyone will ever do so, permanently locking customers ([[slave]]s) into lifelong servitude. | |||
Please, ''please'' stop this horrible menace! Find every copy of mediawiki and shred it now ''before it's too late and we're all contaminated by its communistic evil!'' | |||