From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 21 05:03:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24700 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 05:03:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk ([194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24691 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 05:03:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@internationalschool.co.uk) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (bamboo.tis [10.0.0.70]) by internationalschool.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09270 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 12:58:38 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35641724.95ACE21B@internationalschool.co.uk> Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 12:59:32 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: The International School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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