Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 01:25:24 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, chat@freebsd.org, Eric Melville <eric@freebsd.org>, Randall Hamilton <nitedog@silly.pikachu.org>, GB Clark II <gclarkii@vsservices.com> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <3C08A204.3CA7014C@mindspring.com> References: <000301c17a40$8fc78dc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <010d01c17a44$98b491e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > Microsoft got in because of luck and because of > > underhanded practices, not ethical management. > > The same claim has been made about every company in history that ever reached a > position of leadership. Some people just resent the fact that other > persons/companies are more competent or successful than they are, and cannot > accept the possibility that the success of the latter could be do to anything > except some sort of cheating. Counter examples include: IBM Won the disk drive market fairly and squarely instead of by dumping to pu CDC out of the disk business. IBM Invented Microchannel architecture to improve things, not to redress their control mistake with the ISA bus. Standard Oil Owned gas stations not to force all people to buy only their product, but instead because it was just good business sense. AT&T Controlled the telephone industry, from the copper mining to the wire ducting to the manufacture of the chairs in which operators sat, in order to make the world a better place. Oh. Wait... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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