From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 18 10:23:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1221515F for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:23:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:23:28 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Terry Lambert" , "Jonathon McKitrick" Cc: , Subject: RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:23:28 -0800 Message-ID: <001e01bf31f2$02c70fb0$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-reply-to: <199911181753.KAA15939@usr02.primenet.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Is it possible for company to cause the adoption of lesser > > technology purely by business/marketing tactics? > > Yes. It required the ability to wield what is called "monopolistic > power" in the marketplace. If you can wield this power, you can > subvert normal free-market pressures, and by subverting, ignore them. Then why is it that not one single clear example of this has ever been found? This must be some extreme usage of the word "possible". DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message