From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 20 17:53:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6122614C31 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:53:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05016; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:53:09 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991220184940.03e5e490@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:51:47 -0700 To: Ben Pitzer , freebsd-chat From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: windows debate In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991218221755.007a1010@pop.mindspring.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:17 PM 12/18/1999 , Ben Pitzer wrote: >In essense, I say that your brother-in-law is right. We can admit that >Gates is a marketing genius, Ah, but he's not. Didn't have to be. IBM made his product the de facto standard, and he didn't have to do any marketing at all! Microsoft's later success at marketing was mostly due to Pam Edstrom, not Gates. > Let's face it, you don't need to know hardware to own and >run a computer. Bill Gates convince the masses that they could learn the >/software/ necessary to do that, however. No, Steve Jobs did. But IBM's legacy made Gates the winner. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message