Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 01:43:34 -0800 (PST) From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tell Micro$oft what you think Message-ID: <199811240943.BAA07698@newsguy.com>
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At Mon, 23 Nov 1998 17:53:54 +0000 (GMT), you wrote > >OK, now that we're on a total tangent for FreeBSD Advocacy... Tangent? It doesn't even touch... :-) >The Famicon (Nintendo) hardware operates by placing a patented MMU >chip on each cartridge. > >This not only increases the per cartridge price, it: [...] > >The biggest danger for them is that some other vendor will release >new hardware, with more software, at the same time they release >their new platform and EOL their old platform. > >It's very much a closed shop; if you have any complaint against it, >then don't buy into the closed shop. But if you make the choice to >buy into the closed shop, it's your own fault when you get bitten. Well, the new Dreamcast by SEGA goes against this trend. It even supports Windows CE. Or will, once MS gets it's acts together (reading an interview about it, where all the problems they had and have because MS sucks are mentioned in a very polite and diplomatic way, was very interesting, to say the least :). -- Daniel C. Sobral dcs@newsguy.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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