Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:22:26 -0500 From: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, somers@adm.njit.edu Subject: Re: windows debate Message-ID: <19991218032226.B337@spirit.jaded.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912180115250.13403-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 01:23:25AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912180115250.13403-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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| I'm having a debate with my brother-in-law over microsoft's business | tactics and bill gates. He argues that gates is a genius for getting PCs | in the hands of average people, not just computer geeks. He argues that | gates was brilliant for his marketing tactics that locked people into | windows, and that he gave people what they wanted: easy-to-use | computers. He argues that there may be better OSes out there, but that | gates just had the wherewithall to market it correctly and make it cheap | enough and easy enough for the average person to use. He agrees that | crashes are no fun, and agrees that M$ may be a monopoly, but thinks that | gates did good for consumers, not bad, and that M$ singlehandedly brought | the computer industry to the cutting edge of the eceonomy and brought the | US to its economic growth it enjoys right now. Any thoughts? Windows was nothing new, really. I am in no means a mac advocate myself, but they seemed to have beat Microsoft to the whole "windows idea" by at least a few years. The difference in my eyes wasn't superior technology, it was marketing. -- Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org) "Cure for global warming: One giant heatsink and dual fans!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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