Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 19:03:40 -0400 From: "Jason" <kib@poboxes.com> To: "Stuart Henderson" <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <00a001bd850c$b548f0c0$023aa8c0@kib.kib.net>
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I am willing to bet that if you told a PC seller what you wanted...i.e. partition/software wise....they will get it for you....if not then you are in the wrong place. In the computer selling business "solutions" is the name of the game. He who has the solutions and makes customers happy wins in the end! Jason -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Thursday, May 21, 1998 8:29 AM Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... >Atipa wrote: >> >> But what makes this a monopoly? We all have the ability to choose >> products, and noone is taking that away. > >it's as if an oil company with a large market share licensed a type of >fuel tank filler that only works with their pumps to all the major car >manufacturers, and only sold fuel to car owners that have one. result: >maybe not quite a monopoly, but not exactly healthy competition... > >> As I stated in other e-mails, we are missing the big picture. We need >> to focus on promoting emerging technologies, instead of stunting >> existing ones. Then we can all be winners. They should be investigating >> MS's poisoning of Java instead of their integrated browser. > >or even just that new computers don't come with a separate partition to >install another OS onto without disrupting the primary one... > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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