From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 18 7:17:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118EF1541A for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:17:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11oTJV-0007kg-00; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:17:33 +0000 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:17:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: jack Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Couldn't it be argued that those OEM's had the option to choose? Maybe what happened is that *they* chose windows, not consumers, and now we get the consequences. On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, jack wrote: >Today Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > >> Is it possible for company to cause the adoption of lesser >> technology purely by business/marketing tactics? > >Yes. OS/2 2.1 was superior to Windows3.1/DOS. The "Windows >tax", where OEMs were forced to license a copy of W3.1 for every >system sold or pay full retail, didn't leave much room for OS/2. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst >jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. > Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. > PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD > enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -jonathon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message