From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 18 10:47:48 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 BBA3D154E6 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:47:41 -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 10:47:38 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Jonathon McKitrick" Cc: "Terry Lambert" , , Subject: RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:47:38 -0800 Message-ID: <000001bf31f5$62ce77b0$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > > > >> > Is it possible for company to cause the adoption of lesser > >> > technology purely by business/marketing tactics? > >> > >> Yes. It required the ability to wield what is called "monopolistic > >> power" in the marketplace. If you can wield this power, you can > >> subvert normal free-market pressures, and by subverting, ignore them. > > > > Then why is it that not one single clear example of this > has ever been > >found? This must be some extreme usage of the word "possible". > > > > Then what would you call M$ requiring all machines sold by OEMs to have > Windows pre-installed, when OS/2 and DOS were viable alternatives, and > OS/2 may have been superior? > > -jm It's not an example of the adoption of a lesser technology unless OS/2 actually _is_ superior. Since it only "may have been", this is not a clear example. Read over the full thread of what I said (cited above). And this is really only logical. If OS/2 had been clearly superior, many OEMs would have refused Microsoft's terms, preferring to sell only the superior technology to the inferior one. Wouldn't you think? DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message