Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:43:13 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) Message-ID: <15021.60337.447884.803919@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <91477538@toto.iv>
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Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> types: > The computer industry is NOT like it was 20 years ago, it is 1000 times > vaster. I can remember when I was 15, and it was actually possible at > that time to "know everything worth knowing" at least in the PC desktop > arena (although we didn't call them PC's then) That is why the userbase at > that time was so adamantly for standardization on a single platform and > software OS - because we all felt that the market was still graspable, > and we wanted the standardization to keep it graspable. You had a different userbase than I did. I remember there being a half-dozen different PC choices, most of them miserable, and few - if any - of them good. Of course, most of the people I hung around with also remember working with snow white and the seven dwarfs, and already knew that interoperability was something you got in a computer line, at least until the manufacturer decided to play shell games to kill the third party hardware market. > "Industry standard" today is nothing more than a meaningless marketing term > used by salespeople to try to convince the weak-minded to abandon a current > solution and switch to a new one. And you're more generous than I am about that. An industry standard is what comes from the company the salesman you're talking to works for, and "so-called standards" are what come from their competition. The internet used to be the one place where interoperability was important. I'm already miss it. <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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