Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:46:35 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>, "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: non-Unix history (Was: FreeBSD vs linux) Message-ID: <14959.34171.23487.493965@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <3A6F78B5.70AE5FB4@nisser.com> References: <14957.31196.939559.889627@guru.mired.org> <14959.23870.728403.859934@guru.mired.org> <3A6F61DC.39E9CF0D@nisser.com> <01012419080209.24525@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> <3A6F78B5.70AE5FB4@nisser.com>
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Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> types: > Tim McMillen wrote: > > Many did. But empirically many vendors either gave up support for Unix > > altogether or only supported a few Unix types because it was simply too > > expensive to provide support for them all. > > Do you think anyone really develops for Windows because of it's > > technical superiority? Of course not. They develop for windows > > because of its ubiquity. They can write the program once, learn on > > ... > Nice argument. Does not explain the initial take off of either DOS > or Windows, though. Far from it, actually. Correct. See the "Good enough is best" paper for that :-). > It it is indeed marketing, then it is a moot point. Maybe we'll know > - to bring it back to its origins <g> - when KDE and Gnome merge. Oi, I can see it now - all the features of both, four times the memory of either. Thanx, but no thanx! <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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