Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:28:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, crh@outpost.co.nz, chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911181827410.4274-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <001e01bf31f2$02c70fb0$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > >> > Is it possible for company to cause the adoption of lesser >> > technology purely by business/marketing tactics? >> >> Yes. It required the ability to wield what is called "monopolistic >> power" in the marketplace. If you can wield this power, you can >> subvert normal free-market pressures, and by subverting, ignore them. > > Then why is it that not one single clear example of this has ever been >found? This must be some extreme usage of the word "possible". > Then what would you call M$ requiring all machines sold by OEMs to have Windows pre-installed, when OS/2 and DOS were viable alternatives, and OS/2 may have been superior? -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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