From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 1 0:17:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428BC37B405; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 00:17:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fB18H5R60263; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 00:17:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Anthony Atkielski" , "Mike Meyer" Cc: "Andrew C. Hornback" , "Mike Meyer" , , "Eric Melville" , "Randall Hamilton" , "GB Clark II" Subject: RE: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 00:17:05 -0800 Message-ID: <000301c17a40$8fc78dc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <040701c179af$4bda25f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >-----Original Message----- >From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:anthony@freebie.atkielski.com] >Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 6:57 AM >To: Mike Meyer >Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Andrew C. Hornback; Mike Meyer; chat@freebsd.org; >Eric Melville; Randall Hamilton; GB Clark II >Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) > > >> No, it isn't. You overlooked what happens in >> reality, which is that the users go where >> Microsoft wants them to be, and give up on the >> being where they want to be. > >Urban legends die hard. It's comforting to think that Microsoft succeeded by >cheating somehow, But they did. Small decisions made at the beginning of an industry can have tremendous reprecussions later on and it's not just the computer industry that this is the case. And they never stopped cheating either, you can read the anti-trust trial transcripts, the outright lies made by Microsoft are plentiful. Microsoft got in because of luck and because of underhanded practices, not ethical management. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message