Mr Viik hopes this will deter those trying to build cyberdefences on a military or state monopoly model.

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First, they copied the monopoly model of electricity supply pioneered in the West.

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The MPs also question the adequacy of having "a monopoly supplier business model in police procurement" and note that the new official Taser supplier consists of "more or less identical personnel operating in the same premises with a near-duplicate website" as the former distributor.

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In general, they provide a better experience, as well as a model for breaking up the cable pricing monopoly.

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Coming out of the Microsoft monopoly era and posing as a counter to the Apple model, Google is averse to actually selling anything outright.

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The result was vastly increased productivity, opportunities, and even a new type of business model (mass customization) that otherwise would not have come into being under the Post Office monopoly.

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