From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 18 13:40:56 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 2A489154CB for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:40:49 -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 11oZIJ-000IVz-00; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:40:43 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA08057; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:40:43 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:40:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Joseph Scott Cc: David Schwartz , Terry Lambert , crh@outpost.co.nz, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" In-Reply-To: <383470DA.54DB5A9B@owp.csus.edu> 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, Joseph Scott wrote: > > 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. So basically, we are all in the corner the vendors painted us into. There's only one situation worse, and it hurts even more because it was gross mismanagement, no more, no less: the Amiga. Superior in every way but apps for its time.. and it went the way of the Dodo. Those of us who have them can only imagine what it would have been like today if CBM had done things right. -jm "I said he'll flip you. Flip you for real." - Fenster, The Usual Suspects To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message