Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:47:38 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Jonathon McKitrick" <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert@primenet.com>, <crh@outpost.co.nz>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <000001bf31f5$62ce77b0$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911181827410.4274-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > > > >> > Is it possible for company to cause the adoption of lesser > >> > technology purely by business/marketing tactics? > >> > >> Yes. It required the ability to wield what is called "monopolistic > >> power" in the marketplace. If you can wield this power, you can > >> subvert normal free-market pressures, and by subverting, ignore them. > > > > Then why is it that not one single clear example of this > has ever been > >found? This must be some extreme usage of the word "possible". > > > > Then what would you call M$ 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
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