Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 05:09:52 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: smiledon@intop.net (Charlie Schloemer) Cc: chuck@ucsd.edu, jkb@best.com, danny@AlphaZed.com, wes@softweyr.com, grog@lemis.com, kbyanc@freedomnet.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tell Micro$oft what you think Message-ID: <199811221309.FAA07281@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9811220027410.14470-100000@tourney.intop.net> from Charlie Schloemer at "Nov 22, 98 00:31:43 am"
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Charlie Schloemer wrote: > I have to concur on this one, too. Love or hate Microsoft, they're > largely responsible for the the low cost of PC hardware, making their > software accessible and easy for home users. I don't care to ever USE any > of this software in my lifetime, but I enjoy being able to build a killer > system for $1500. FWIW. :-) > Gates often repeats that line....or elaborates on it saying that if cars had developed and car prices fallen as fast as pcs you could drive from maine to san jose on a single tank of gas in less than an hour......detroit responds by saying that is true, if you made it.....the car would explode killing all passengers before you reched the mississippi. the fall in PC prices has nothing to do with MS, neither can one atribute increase in performance to MS. rather intel and and computer makers have been busting their chops trying to keep the hardware improvements from being swamped by MS bloatware. as users of FreeBSD, we should be deeply grateful to these hardware companies....we get all the improvement without suffering any of the MS induced sludge-ware. attribute the speedup to the "market forces" if you will, but dont credit MS with others work. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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