From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 7 14:48:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC05C37B416 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:48:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7958 invoked by uid 100); 7 Dec 2001 22:48:10 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15377.18218.830731.410656@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:48:10 -0600 To: Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. In-Reply-To: <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> <006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anthony Atkielski types: > 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. This assumption is false. The dominant system will be the best-marketed one that meets the customers requirements, which is not the same thing as the one that best meets the customers requirements. > Since Windows is dominant, then, logically it meets the requirements > of most customers, and so it is the rational choice. You've moved from "best meets the customers requirements" to "meets the requirements of most customers", which are two different things. In either case, you don't know whether it is the rational choice for any particular use until you know the requirements of that case. > > 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. No, but they invalidate your religiously pushing of the same solution for all uses in those two environments. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message