From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 18 14:13:33 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 5DCC015504 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:13:30 -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 14:13:25 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: Subject: RE: Subjctive views of the world (was: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit") Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:13:25 -0800 Message-ID: <000001bf3212$222392a0$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: <19991118170326.20876@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Thursday, 18 November 1999 at 10:23:28 -0800, 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". > > A good question. We've found them. When you say (paraphrased) "why > has no example been found?", I have to assume you mean "why have I not > seen one?". > > I can't answer that question. Seeing as I'm the only person in this thread who has cited even a single reference to back up his claims, this amounts to little more than whining. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message