Posted Mar 18, 2008 16:23 UTC (Tue) by caitlinbestler (subscriber, #32532)
Parent article: Sequoia v. Ed Felten
The attitude of the vendors here is perplexing.
Having a rigorous audit trail, complete with public comment
periods, formal responses to queries, etc. would all be
excellent barriers to entry for would-be competitors.
As things stand, anyone can whip up some GUI software
over generic hardware and just bribe the same government
officials. That's not much of a barrier to entry at all.