Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:39:50 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Konstantinos Konstantinidis" <kkonstan@duth.gr>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a00000a@atkielski.com><3C110351.4748B559@duth.gr><005001c17f6c$e60c0ef0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org>
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Mike writes: > The hidden assumption is that "rational people" > are just like Anthony ... No. The not-so-hidden assumption is that the system that best meets the customers' requirements will tend to become dominant, because most customers are mostly rational. Since Windows is dominant, then, logically it meets the requirements of most customers, and so it is the rational choice. > Rational people actually look at the requirements > and then reach conclusions, rather than mentioning > that requirements exist then jumping to a conclusion. Their conclusions thus far seem to lead them overwhelmingly to Windows on the desktop. > Just like there are environments where Unix > isn't the logical choice for a server because it > fails to meet a variety of requirements, there > are also environments where Windows is not the > logical choice for a desktop. But they are a small minority of environments in both cases, and these exceptions do not invalidate the rule. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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