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It sounds like a title from my "World Audio News Section”, doesn’t it?

Wojtek wrote:

As a religious supporter (and I guess benefficiary) of junk based, scam & monopol oriented Microsoft why your so angry with audio scam industry operating along the same rules?

Actually I would very much applaud if the Audio Industry would operate along the same principle as Microsoft does.  I know that people in the Eastern Europe fashionably love to hate Microsoft, or at least love to bravado with their disrespect to Microsoft. I disagree with this position and generally I find that people who support the “Microsoft hating” are mostly ignorant, not rational and do not consider cost per transaction (the only thing that is important in business operations).  This is not the site where I would bring my argument pro Microsoft but there is something attractive for me in the Microsoft that I feel might be very beneficial for audio: constant identification of needs as addressing them. Let do not dive into the conversation HOW the Microsoft does it but pay attention to the fact that Microsoft does recognize the “needs” of the prospective users and then furnish the solutions for the satisfaction of those frustrations (more or less successfully). In a way any serious software company does it, not only Microsoft  but form my point of view Microsoft does it more consistently, dependably, predictably and more efficient .

Ok, now, let to see what audio industry does: they do not recognize the frustrations of users but they create within the user's awareness purely artificial frustrations that do not exist in Realty and then, the Industry provide artificial solutions to those artificial problem. Business-wise no one hurt and everything is fine but as the result the end used becomes more Moronic and more disassociated with the real goals of Audio.

So, pretend you, as a user, broke your leg. If you cured by Microsoft then they would give you a genetic tool to fix any broken bone in your body. This tool would work for a broken leg, broken back, broken jaw, broken rib and broken finger. It will not be perfect for each type of the bone but it will do a so-so job that would allow you to do the bone’s restoring fast, not expensive, efficient and with no needs for a medicine license. Also, the Microsoft would enable this "bone-fixing solution" to be used not only by you but by the experienced and knowledgeable medical doctors who have much more evolved and advanced demands then you do and who could fix your bone way more effectively then you. Those doctors would use the same Microsoft's tool as available for you but they would severally overwrite it’s functionality in order to customize the tool’s for the specific bone that YOU have broken. Microsoft would even provide to your doctor a set of the tools within the same solutions that would anable your doctor to construct own custom bone-fixing mechanism if the doctor has skills to do it and if your (your insurance) would afford it.

Contrary to this what the Audio Industry does to you if you have a broken leg. They kindly offer to you a band-aid that they place over your damaged bone. Then they explain you that the color of the band-aid is very important for the speed of your healing and they would furnish you with blue, red and green band-aids. Then they would provide you with the set of the special markers with which your nurse would draw her different geometrical figures atop of your band-aids in order to expedite your bones’ healing. Then they show you a video with a sprint-runner who won Olympic medals "despite of the fact that his mother-in-law had broken legs". They will explain to you that the sprint-runner is so good only because his mother-in-law used green with yellow stripes band-aid when hier legs was broken… As the result no one care bout the state of your bone and:

Do I have to continue?

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