Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 18:46:12 -0400 From: "Jason" <kib@poboxes.com> To: "Amancio Hasty" <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, "Gary Kline" <kline@tera.tera.com>, "Atipa" <freebsd@atipa.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <007e01bd850a$497c6c20$023aa8c0@kib.kib.net>
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And they are not? I can call places like Vircom and get any OS I want. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Jason <kib@poboxes.com> Cc: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>; Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com>; Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com>; Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>; freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 11:11 PM Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... >Part of the problem with this line of thinking is that PC OEM must >be free to distribute alternative OS without illegal reprecussion >from Microsoft . The other component is that the application >vendors must be convinced to port their applications to an alternative >OS of course they are welcome to become successful in the MS World and >if they should we all know what follows next . > > Cheers, > Amancio > >> >what platform it runs on. That's market control, the buyer has virtually >> no >> >say in what gets implemented. It is either the M$ solution or nothing. >> You >> >either develop to the M$ standard or you don't develop at all. All of this >> >> >> Who says that....if all the app venders and users get sick and tired of >> windows and microsoft then they should abegin developing their apps for >> other platforms and begin promoting it to the public. Its not a hard thing >> to do to make an app run on other OSs. >> >> Jason >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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