From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 18 15:51:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA28172 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:51:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA28121 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:51:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.0.Beta3/8.9.0.Beta3) with SMTP id SAA02188 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 18:29:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 18:29:29 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 18 May 1998, Atipa wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 1998, Sean Kelly wrote: > > > Atipa (Kevin) wrote: > > > > > > > Smart. > > > > > The consumer ultimately decides what sells and > > > what doesn't, and not the providers. > > > > I'm not sure that's true. If an operating systems vendor makes > > contracts with computer manufacturers that its OS is installed on all > > manufactured systems, the consumer gets stuck with a `sale' that s/he > > didn't necessarily choose. > > How long would those contracts last if the product was inferior? Win 3.x was inferior and those contracts lasted until the consent decree was signed. > There will always be a choice. You know that, I know that, the people on this list know that, but Joe Sixpack doesn't know an operating system from a TCP/IP stack from a serial port. To him it's all part of "the computer". Whatever comes on the box he bought at Kmart will probably be the only thing to ever run on it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null Mail from netcom.com blocked until they stop relaying SPAM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message