Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:39:36 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000317123838.00b58410@localhost> In-Reply-To: <v04220804b4f7c2c3ccb2@[195.238.1.121]> References: <4.2.2.20000316174913.041235e0@localhost> <4.2.2.20000315174932.03efa380@localhost> <4.2.2.20000316174913.041235e0@localhost>
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At 04:12 AM 3/17/2000 , Brad Knowles wrote: >At 5:56 PM -0700 2000/3/16, Brett Glass wrote: > >> Market forces should take care of products of poor quality; > > However, we know for a fact that this simply doesn't happen -- witness Microsoft, the prime example of marketing over substance. In a market where consumers are frequently ignoranct of what constitutes product quality. This is not so in the UNIX world. --Brett Glass Microsoft is continually protecting its turf, even if that turf appears to the rest of us as belonging to a company other than Microsoft. -- Robert X. Cringely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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