Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:34:18 +0000 From: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, crh@outpost.co.nz, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <383470DA.54DB5A9B@owp.csus.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911181827410.4274-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Then what would you call M$ requiring all machines sold by OEMs to have > Windows pre-installed, when OS/2 and DOS were viable alternatives, and > OS/2 may have been superior? > OS/2 was and is still superior to Windows. May even be better than Windows 2000, but having never used 2000 I just don't know. I think the tricky part is defining superior. You can argue that OS/2 was not superior because it didn't have as many apps as windows, but I think you are then arguing about the OS/2 market, not OS/2 itself. I really liked OS/2, used with great joy, especially when my assembler programs would bomb, close the dos window and try it again. OS/2 is superior to windows. As to why then vendors didn't pick up on that, couple of ideas, one being money. They had to pay MS if a machine had windows on it or not, so to put OS/2 on there they had to pay both MS and IBM. Plus tech support for a different product. Now you may say they had to do the same thing going from Win 3.1 to 9x and you'd be right, but they did it because MS was in the drivers seat and the vendors where along for the ride because of money. -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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