Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 23:23:49 +0100 From: jmdupx@yahoo.com To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Microsoft bashers Message-ID: <3B898505.23582.B20BFA4@localhost> In-Reply-To: <002c01c12e70$643e3da0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <20010826232839.A2735@hades.hell.gr>
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I dont often post here, but I think a broader issue has been overlooked in this thread, the fact that computer innovation (at least all of the developments that have been raised in this thread, i.e. the first GUI, the first mouse, the Internet and so on) has been virtually exclusively carried forward by corporate businesses or private individuals who have turned their ideas into corporations as soon as they have proved popular enough, so ultimately this driving force has always been bound up with commercial interest at one level or another Leaving aside the specific crimes Microsoft may or may not have been guilty of, or the contribution it may or may not have made to computing i think the whole question is a great reminder that the free-market economic model can have its flip-side too It may have a lot of advantages over other tried and failed systems, but i think we would be fools to forget that it can leave open the possibility for a corporation to achieve or attempt an abusive manipulation of its section of a market - this could be Microsoft or any other corporation, but the point is still the same - the more dependent a society becomes on a single corporation's product or products, the easier or more likely it is the corporation would try to unfairly influence or dominate a market On 26 Aug 2001, at 13:47, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Giorgos Keramidas > >Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 1:29 PM > >To: Walter Betancourt > > > >Do not be biased. It isn't a good thing to be fanatic about Windows, > >and it is not a good thing to be fanatic against Windows either. > > > > Just keep in mind that Windows and Microsoft are two different things. > > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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