Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:17:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911181516420.1354-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911181005500.40862-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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Couldn't it be argued that those OEM's had the option to choose? Maybe what happened is that *they* chose windows, not consumers, and now we get the consequences. On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, jack wrote: >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 >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -jonathon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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