Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 04:24:54 +0000 From: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> To: "Jason" <kib@poboxes.com>, "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Amancio Hasty" <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, "Gary Kline" <kline@tera.tera.com>, "Atipa" <freebsd@atipa.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Message-ID: <980521042454.ZM959@darkstar.connect.com> In-Reply-To: "Jason" <kib@poboxes.com> "Re: Why we should support Microsoft..." (May 20, 11:58pm) References: <008801bd846c$c3ea79a0$023aa8c0@kib.kib.net>
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On May 20, 11:58pm, Jason wrote: > Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... > >On May 20, 11:53am, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > >This is your lament. You speak with mixed voices. First > >you favor to fight your own battles, as do I. Then you say you > >don't care whether M$ has you on the hit list. I have seen > >numerous post where you expressed the joy and rewards > >received from writting free software, so don't accuse me of > >not carefully reading you writing. Where will those rewards > >come from once the free software ideal is crushed. Yes > >perhaps There will always be some place where free software > >is used, but don't try to convince me that a person with your > >passion being involved with the FreeBSD project won't feel a > >big loss if M$ or anyone else sould crush the project. That my > >friend is impingment on you freedom, and you tell me you don't > >give a damn. In the end it is how reedom is defined. > > > I don't think there is much MS can do to FreeBSD. It not like they are > going to get cheaper than FreeBSD. What are they going to pay people to > switch? > Jason, you fail to understand how monopoly power works in the market place. M$ already dominates the desktop OS environment, and are gaining ground in the server market. Open source software is presently not well received in the corporate world. The more M$ dominates the less chance any competitive OS has of getting accepted much less gain market share. You are clearly missing the big picture or are very naive and are equating the "cult users" of free software with the commercial world where the money is made in software. Monopoly power very simply means that there is one supplier and everyone else is out or going out of the business. There are no other choices. Compared to M$ FreeBSD is hardly a blip on anyone's radar screen, and the more they dominate the smaller that blip will get until it disappears. After reading a few of your posts, I wonder if you are just not making arguments for arguments sake. Frank > Jason >-- End of excerpt from Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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