kitler53 on 27 May 2014
| theprof00 said: How is this allowable??? It feels like it goes completely against fair business practices. It's one thing to improve an end product to help you sell it better. It's another to prevent your rival from conducting business as usual. I can't really think of a similar relationship that currently exists. Anyone care to suggest one? |
not something you would recongise by OSI PI has the same policy with my software. it works to a certain extent ar maintaining a leadership position but it can also hurt them. OSI PI lost several massive accounts to us last year specifically because of their policy to lock out and obfuscate dealing with third party products.
this is basically the same as MS's launch parity clause. it seemed like a good idea at the time but it promoted their self destruction. no one wants to do business with those that don't play well with others.
