Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 11:29:11 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <15370.25831.254244.363910@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <000f01c17ab1$1ac8c590$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15367.37543.15609.362257@guru.mired.org> <040701c179af$4bda25f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15367.43943.686638.723011@guru.mired.org> <003301c179ea$8925d270$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15368.2156.193643.17139@guru.mired.org> <005601c179f3$a4030640$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15368.5624.255357.964607@guru.mired.org> <008901c17a30$7d084f40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15369.3159.548082.862287@guru.mired.org> <000f01c17ab1$1ac8c590$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> types: > Mike writes: > > [Microsoft's] technology is just barely better than > > "good enough" in almost every category. As such, > > there's usually better technology available from > > companies that don't have the marketing smarts that > > MS has. > But that doesn't matter. Either something is good enough, or it's not. If it > _is_ good enough, then, by definition, you will not profit from anything that is > better. That's not true. Have you ever heard the phrase "The good is the enemy of the best"? It's easy to show that people want improvements on software that is "good enough" to use. Windows 3 was clearly good enough for most people, but they still stood in line at midnight to get Windows 95 - which was better. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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