Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:24:44 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Erick White <erickw@taurus.oursc.k12.ar.us>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit" Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991116140741.15532C-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <001001bf306b$23222f20$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > In fact, that VHS was able to overthrow Beta, the market leader, simply > because it was better is proof that market power can't lock us into inferior > technologies. No, it only proves that market power won't necessarily "lock us into inferior technologies" not that it can't. There is a very important difference. > > Right, this is progress. If you want the features of Kodak Advantix, you Well, no it isn't. Why does a new improved version of an office suite require an improved OS. It doesn't, exccept that the OS vendor has a monopoly and can force users to upgrade. I don't consider being forced to upgrade progress. There is no fundimental reason that Office 2000 couldn't run on the first edition of windows 95, except MS wants to sell you a newer version. > I still use Windows for my desktop machine and for the machines my kids and > I play games on. It still works better. It's not a big deal if your desktop > crashes. Servers are another story. It's a big deal if my desktop crashes. I don't have an hour a week to spend dealing with fiddly crap like that, sorry. I am currently stuck using an NT box as main desktop at work, because my FreeBSD box had a hardware failure. It sucks. I install an mp3 player and have to reboot. I change my monitor resolution, and have to reboot. And so on. So I got to waste an hour today with that. There is no reason I should have to do anything like this. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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