Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 15:21:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Hummel <hummel@www.snybuf.edu> To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATT Unix for Windows ! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970827150748.31092A-100000@www.buffalostate.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970827104431.0097ce70@cybercom.net>
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I can't speak for anyone else, but my own personal distaste stems not from their borrowing technology from others (that's the whole idea of FSF and free software in general), or for having crappy products (I don't HAVE to use them). My main problem with Microsoft is that they put marketing above quality and bully small companies into submission with the wealth they got through luck (DOS) and aggressive marketing (95 and NT). The simple fact is that monopolies are not conducive to quality, so whether a person likes Microsoft or not he/she should be against a market dominated by them (or any other corporation, although some are perhaps less evil than others). On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: <snip> > player hating among UNIX-heads. Granted, there's not a lot of cutting edge > technology coming out of Redmond, but MS has mastered a technique that most > highly skilled programmers and shops are too proud to use--taking someone > else's good idea, combining it with their great marketing, and taking > ownership of the market. Rather than hating MS for bastardizing the > technology, I say that we take whatever good concepts from them that we can > and integrate it into out products. Use their own strategy against them. > Of course, a few mil in the bank wouldn't hurt, but we'll just do what we > can. :-) > > My two bits, > K.S. >
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