From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 18 0:19:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from spirit.jaded.net (liv3-3.hamilton.idirect.com [209.161.208.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C75E614E11 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:19:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@spirit.jaded.net) Received: (from dan@localhost) by spirit.jaded.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA01154; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:22:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:22:26 -0500 From: Dan Moschuk To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-chat , somers@adm.njit.edu Subject: Re: windows debate Message-ID: <19991218032226.B337@spirit.jaded.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 01:23:25AM +0000 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? Windows was nothing new, really. I am in no means a mac advocate myself, but they seemed to have beat Microsoft to the whole "windows idea" by at least a few years. The difference in my eyes wasn't superior technology, it was marketing. -- Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org) "Cure for global warming: One giant heatsink and dual fans!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message