Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:42:40 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <000f01c17ab1$1ac8c590$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15367.37543.15609.362257@guru.mired.org><040701c179af$4bda25f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15367.43943.686638.723011@guru.mired.org><003301c179ea$8925d270$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15368.2156.193643.17139@guru.mired.org><005601c179f3$a4030640$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15368.5624.255357.964607@guru.mired.org><008901c17a30$7d084f40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15369.3159.548082.862287@guru.mired.org>
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Mike writes: > [Microsoft's] technology is just barely better than > "good enough" in almost every category. As such, > there's usually better technology available from > companies that don't have the marketing smarts that > MS has. But that doesn't matter. Either something is good enough, or it's not. If it _is_ good enough, then, by definition, you will not profit from anything that is better. For example, if you need three features in a word-processing program, and you find a program with those features, the fact that another program might have ten features makes no difference, because you already have the three you need. Similarly, if you need a batch job to run in no more than two hours each night, and you find hardware that can run it in 1 hour and 59 minutes, you don't need to look for a system that can run it in 30 minutes, because you've already met your requirement of running it in less than two hours. In other words, you cannot say that something is "good enough," and then say that there is still something to be gained from something else. Either it meets requirements, or it doesn't. > And aren't interested in pursuing this on your > own, right? My time is worth money, too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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