Author: Don Dailey
Date: 16:45:19 12/04/97
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On December 04, 1997 at 14:49:25, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>>Chris Whittington >> >> >>The sad truth is that you are right. This is an operating system that >>in one way or another is being forced upon us. >> >>Don > >Sometimes a free market is very undemocratic, isn't it ? Yes. I don't believe that everyone really wants it but most will get it out of fear of not being part of the club. Whatever it is or isn't is a completely separate issue from it's popularity and widespread use. This reminds me a lot of the way IBM was with PC's years ago. So many people would by an IBM brand PC despite the fact that you could get a faster better machine for LESS money. And they often knew this too. But something emotional and irrational would take over and they would make what they thought to be the "safe" choice. Now I don't think window's is a bad choice for people to make. When people ask me what to buy (new users) I always say they should get a pentium based windows machine. This is so safe no one is ever going to come back to me and say I gave them stupid advice. But I have never ever told them that windows (or Pentiums) were the best. I always say something like there are more powerful OS's and more powerful hardware but this is by far your most practical choice. The most compelling argument for Windows is the software choices. I would like to point out that this same point kept people chained to DOS. I think we should all be thankful to microsoft for caring enough about us to make sure DOS stayed the same for over a decade. Those guy's are real innovators. Don
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