From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 16 18:54:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09F714E13 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:54:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA12716; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:54:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAFKaqXy; Tue Nov 16 19:54:03 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA05982; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:54:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199911170254.TAA05982@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" To: dscheidt@enteract.com (David Scheidt) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 02:54:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: davids@webmaster.com, jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org, erickw@taurus.oursc.k12.ar.us, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "David Scheidt" at Nov 16, 99 02:24:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > In fact, that VHS was able to overthrow Beta, the market leader, simply > > because it was better is proof that market power can't lock us into inferior > > technologies. > > No, it only proves that market power won't necessarily "lock us into > inferior technologies" not that it can't. There is a very important > difference. You guys need to look into the relative merits of these two technologies before you argue about them. Beta is a vastly superior technology when compared to VHS, and "VHS vs. Beta" is actually _the_ standard argument put forward during "Why The Best Technology Does Not Always Win" discussions. The market _did_ in fact lock us into an inferior standard. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message