Teribus--You might be right, but if Genius A is a software engineer, there is no reason to suspect he would be adept at marketing. Of course Microsoft has marketing people, engineers, accountants, and on and on. They have all of that because they have capital. One could write a similar scenario for Wal-Mart or any global company that depends on monopoly to sustain itself.

          Which is the larger point. What right-wing polititions laughingly call a "free market" economy is anything but a free market when it is closely examined. It was really much more open and free before "supply side" economics gave all of the advantages to capital.