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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
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Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?)
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Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> > Microsoft got in because of luck and because of
> > underhanded practices, not ethical management.
> 
> The same claim has been made about every company in history that ever reached a
> position of leadership.  Some people just resent the fact that other
> persons/companies are more competent or successful than they are, and cannot
> accept the possibility that the success of the latter could be do to anything
> except some sort of cheating.

Counter examples include:

	IBM		Won the disk drive market fairly and squarely
			instead of by dumping to pu CDC out of the
			disk business.

	IBM		Invented Microchannel architecture to improve
			things, not to redress their control mistake
			with the ISA bus.

	Standard Oil	Owned gas stations not to force all people to
			buy only their product, but instead because it
			was just good business sense.

	AT&T		Controlled the telephone industry, from the
			copper mining to the wire ducting to the
			manufacture of the chairs in which operators
			sat, in order to make the world a better place.

Oh.  Wait...

-- Terry

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