Competition is good.
Monopoly is bad.
As far as operating systems are concerned, I have no trouble with a monopoly. Win98' article until I found out that most of the real productivity software was developed by people such as myself using microsoft tools. My advice to clients is to stay with Microsoft Only products so that I have the ability to write any software they may need as well as be able to support them. They keep going, and going, and . . . It's the money, stupid.