From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 7 14:40:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF79537B405 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:40:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB7Mdtx15478; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:39:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Mike Meyer" , "Konstantinos Konstantinidis" , References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a00000a@atkielski.com><3C110351.4748B559@duth.gr><005001c17f6c$e60c0ef0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:39:50 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike writes: > The hidden assumption is that "rational people" > are just like Anthony ... No. The not-so-hidden assumption is that the system that best meets the customers' requirements will tend to become dominant, because most customers are mostly rational. Since Windows is dominant, then, logically it meets the requirements of most customers, and so it is the rational choice. > Rational people actually look at the requirements > and then reach conclusions, rather than mentioning > that requirements exist then jumping to a conclusion. Their conclusions thus far seem to lead them overwhelmingly to Windows on the desktop. > Just like there are environments where Unix > isn't the logical choice for a server because it > fails to meet a variety of requirements, there > are also environments where Windows is not the > logical choice for a desktop. But they are a small minority of environments in both cases, and these exceptions do not invalidate the rule. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message