Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 02:54:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dscheidt@enteract.com (David Scheidt) Cc: davids@webmaster.com, jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org, erickw@taurus.oursc.k12.ar.us, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <199911170254.TAA05982@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991116140741.15532C-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> from "David Scheidt" at Nov 16, 99 02:24:44 pm
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> > In fact, that VHS was able to overthrow Beta, the market leader, simply > > because it was better is proof that market power can't lock us into inferior > > technologies. > > No, it only proves that market power won't necessarily "lock us into > inferior technologies" not that it can't. There is a very important > difference. You guys need to look into the relative merits of these two technologies before you argue about them. Beta is a vastly superior technology when compared to VHS, and "VHS vs. Beta" is actually _the_ standard argument put forward during "Why The Best Technology Does Not Always Win" discussions. The market _did_ in fact lock us into an inferior standard. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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