From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 18 7:14: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A891533C for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:13:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA41956; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:12:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:12:19 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" In-Reply-To: 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 Today Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Is it possible for company to cause the adoption of lesser > technology purely by business/marketing tactics? Yes. OS/2 2.1 was superior to Windows3.1/DOS. The "Windows tax", where OEMs were forced to license a copy of W3.1 for every system sold or pay full retail, didn't leave much room for OS/2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message