Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 12:59:32 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <35641724.95ACE21B@internationalschool.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518145641.4694D-100000@altrox.atipa.com>
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Atipa wrote: > > But what makes this a monopoly? We all have the ability to choose > products, and noone is taking that away. it's as if an oil company with a large market share licensed a type of fuel tank filler that only works with their pumps to all the major car manufacturers, and only sold fuel to car owners that have one. result: maybe not quite a monopoly, but not exactly healthy competition... > As I stated in other e-mails, we are missing the big picture. We need > to focus on promoting emerging technologies, instead of stunting > existing ones. Then we can all be winners. They should be investigating > MS's poisoning of Java instead of their integrated browser. or even just that new computers don't come with a separate partition to install another OS onto without disrupting the primary one... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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