From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 19 7:40:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF8D15223 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 07:40:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11ziS3-0002T7-00; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:40:51 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA26947; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:40:51 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:40:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Ben Pitzer Cc: freebsd-chat Subject: Re: windows debate In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991218221755.007a1010@pop.mindspring.com> 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 Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Ben Pitzer wrote: >Jonathan, in all, your brother-in-law is right about Gates' economic >impact. He undercut Apple's prices and technology, and convinced the world >that his product was better than Jobs' product. Was he right? Does it >matter? He got computers into homes, and now it's the job of people like The one point i disagree with here is that HARDWARE prices, not OS prices got computers into homes. WIndows helped,but it was cheaper hardware that made them more accessible. And unfortunately, a poor OS then made them prettier, if not more usable to the average Joe. -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message