From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 18 10:55:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7F3154BD for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:55:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11oWiF-000FKB-00; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:55:19 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA04837; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:55:19 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:55:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: David Schwartz Cc: Terry Lambert , crh@outpost.co.nz, chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" In-Reply-To: <000001bf31f5$62ce77b0$021d85d1@youwant.to> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > It's not an example of the adoption of a lesser technology unless OS/2 >actually _is_ superior. Since it only "may have been", this is not a clear >example. Read over the full thread of what I said (cited above). > > And this is really only logical. If OS/2 had been clearly superior, many >OEMs would have refused Microsoft's terms, preferring to sell only the >superior technology to the inferior one. Wouldn't you think? > So really, then, all this debating over whether Unix or Windows is superior is academic, since it is a matter of personal opinion, right? All that really remains of substance is whether M$ acted illegally to reserve its market status. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message