From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 2 9:29:20 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 54FEE37B416 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 09:29:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 86597 invoked by uid 100); 2 Dec 2001 17:29:11 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15370.25831.254244.363910@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 11:29:11 -0600 To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) In-Reply-To: <000f01c17ab1$1ac8c590$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15367.37543.15609.362257@guru.mired.org> <040701c179af$4bda25f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15367.43943.686638.723011@guru.mired.org> <003301c179ea$8925d270$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15368.2156.193643.17139@guru.mired.org> <005601c179f3$a4030640$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15368.5624.255357.964607@guru.mired.org> <008901c17a30$7d084f40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15369.3159.548082.862287@guru.mired.org> <000f01c17ab1$1ac8c590$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: > > [Microsoft's] technology is just barely better than > > "good enough" in almost every category. As such, > > there's usually better technology available from > > companies that don't have the marketing smarts that > > MS has. > But that doesn't matter. Either something is good enough, or it's not. If it > _is_ good enough, then, by definition, you will not profit from anything that is > better. That's not true. Have you ever heard the phrase "The good is the enemy of the best"? It's easy to show that people want improvements on software that is "good enough" to use. Windows 3 was clearly good enough for most people, but they still stood in line at midnight to get Windows 95 - which was better. 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