From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 17 12: 1:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA0537B7BE for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:01:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07216; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:00:37 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000317123838.00b58410@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:39:36 -0700 To: Brad Knowles , Rahul Siddharthan From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.2.20000316174913.041235e0@localhost> <4.2.2.20000315174932.03efa380@localhost> <4.2.2.20000316174913.041235e0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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