From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 17:46:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 747AE37B404 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:46:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21245 invoked by uid 100); 25 Jan 2001 01:46:35 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14959.34171.23487.493965@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:46:35 -0600 (CST) To: Roelof Osinga Cc: Tim McMillen , "Albert D. Cahalan" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: non-Unix history (Was: FreeBSD vs linux) 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roelof Osinga 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 - 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! 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