Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 19:05:00 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <15216.33324.9869.833842@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010807183116.D53464@luke.immure.com> References: <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <20010807145112.C39962@luke.immure.com> <15216.25797.153039.786261@guru.mired.org> <20010807183116.D53464@luke.immure.com>
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Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> types: > Never saw that one. Certainly this attitude persists today vis-a-vis > Microsoft. I get that attitude here in the startup company I work for > now (and I am one of the co-founders). If you use Windows and it breaks > its not your fault. On the other hand, demand to use FreeBSD and if it > fails you're in for it. I don't think that's an IBM/MS thing, I think it's standard for support folks. You can't support everything that anyone can drag in, so people who want to use tools you don't support have to do it themselves. > Well, to me anyway, coming from an IBM mainframe background, my first > IBM-PC with only 128KB of memory and two 160KB diskette drives seemed > pretty bleak. It wasn't till I could get a hard disk on it (probably in > the '85 time frame) that it seemed like a useful computer to me. My CP/M-80 box from that era - 256K of ram and a pair of 320K drives - did things the IBM mainframe I had access to couldn't do. Ditto for the Unix and the VMS system I was using then. Mostly, it was that my box was mine, so I could install all the tools I needed. The institutional systems weren't mine, so while the tools they had were better than I those I could afford, none of them had all the tools I needed. Things haven't really changed in that respect, it's just that my tools are now *much* better than they used to be. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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