From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 3 20:11:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268E837B416 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:11:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g344BDr68609; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:11:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <005401c1db8e$c2861290$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Brett Glass" Cc: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020401153352.02b99760@nospam.lariat.org> <3CA8EB5F.2E91B408@mindspring.com> <1017709221.71119.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3CA91382.4E4E2B@mindspring.com> <003a01c1da0e$4ec56080$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020402161351.A26122@wantadilla.lemis.com> <006901c1da80$599af0c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20020403085624.J26122@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020403075529.00d0adf0@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020403163134.01cbae00@nospam.lariat.org> Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:11:13 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Brett writes: > Actually, Gates was rich from the get-go. He came > from a very wealthy family. He did not have a billion dollars to pour into software development. > This had nothing whatsoever to do with its > success. It had _everything_ to do with it. The high intelligence of its employees is probably the single most important factor in Microsoft's success. Without smart employees, the company would have made poor decisions, and poorer products, and it would be where, say, Netscape is today. Bill Gates' best decision was to hire people at least as smart as he is. > Microsoft succeeded primarily by default... > Its much larger competitor, DRI, didn't show > up to provide a DOS for the IBM PC. See my comments on intelligence above. Intelligent companies show up to demonstrate their product; unintelligent companies go hang-gliding instead. > Microsoft licensed a mediocre product from > Seattle Computer products, called it its own, > and the rest is history. Anyone could have done that; but Microsoft apparently had the brains to figure out how to do it first. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message