From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 16 12:26:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E5E14D39 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:26:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA56796; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:24:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:24:44 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: David Schwartz Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , Erick White , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" In-Reply-To: <001001bf306b$23222f20$021d85d1@youwant.to> 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 Tue, 16 Nov 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > 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. > > Right, this is progress. If you want the features of Kodak Advantix, you Well, no it isn't. Why does a new improved version of an office suite require an improved OS. It doesn't, exccept that the OS vendor has a monopoly and can force users to upgrade. I don't consider being forced to upgrade progress. There is no fundimental reason that Office 2000 couldn't run on the first edition of windows 95, except MS wants to sell you a newer version. > I still use Windows for my desktop machine and for the machines my kids and > I play games on. It still works better. It's not a big deal if your desktop > crashes. Servers are another story. It's a big deal if my desktop crashes. I don't have an hour a week to spend dealing with fiddly crap like that, sorry. I am currently stuck using an NT box as main desktop at work, because my FreeBSD box had a hardware failure. It sucks. I install an mp3 player and have to reboot. I change my monitor resolution, and have to reboot. And so on. So I got to waste an hour today with that. There is no reason I should have to do anything like this. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message