From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 17 17:23:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E406614DA9 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:23:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11z8aj-000FHB-00; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 01:23:25 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA13438; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 01:23:25 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 01:23:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-chat Cc: somers@adm.njit.edu Subject: windows debate 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 I'm having a debate with my brother-in-law over microsoft's business tactics and bill gates. He argues that gates is a genius for getting PCs in the hands of average people, not just computer geeks. He argues that gates was brilliant for his marketing tactics that locked people into windows, and that he gave people what they wanted: easy-to-use computers. He argues that there may be better OSes out there, but that gates just had the wherewithall to market it correctly and make it cheap enough and easy enough for the average person to use. He agrees that crashes are no fun, and agrees that M$ may be a monopoly, but thinks that gates did good for consumers, not bad, and that M$ singlehandedly brought the computer industry to the cutting edge of the eceonomy and brought the US to its economic growth it enjoys right now. Any thoughts? -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message